Lenox Mauser Silver Overlaid Coffee Pot, 6 Saucers, Creamer, & Sugar Bowl

Description

Mauser Lenox Exquisite Art Nouveau Silver Overlaid Coffee Pot, 6 Saucers, Creamer, & Sugar Bowl. Condition is commensurate with age. The creamer has a small hairline crack and the coffee pot has been professionally repaired, as shown in pictures, but that doesn’t detract from the functionality or beauty of the piece. The coffee pot, creamer, and sugar bowl are all engraved with “JCK”.They are also stamped “1215”, and the creamer is marked “91768” (presumably by hand). The coffee pot, creamer, and sugar bowl are all branded “Lenox” and “Mauser” (one stamp for “Lenox”, one for “Mauser”), while the saucers are just branded “Mauser”.
The sugar bowl measures approximately 5 1/2” tall (with lid) x 6 1/2” wide.
The saucers measure approximately 4 1/2” in diameter each.
The coffee pot measures approximately 8” tall (with lid) x 8” wide.
The creamer measures approximately 4” tall x 5 1/2” wide.
If you would like an extra coffee pot and six cups, please visit our selling page. Please note that the saucers are slightly too big for the cups, the set is not branded, and it is monogrammed differently. See the other listing for more details.
A Brief History of Lenox:
Before he co-founded the Ceramic Art Company in 1889 with Jonathan Coxon, Walter Scott Lenox worked at Ott and Brewer of Trenton, New Jersey, a city that was home to around 200 potteries. Like a lot of U.S. porcelain makers in the 19th century, the Ceramic Art Company used a cream-colored, soft-paste-porcelain clay body called parian, which aped the look of Belleek. In 1894, Lenox became the sole owner of the Ceramic Art Company, and in 1906, the name of the firm was changed accordingly.
Ordering from Tiffany’s in New York came next, and Lenox progressed to become well regarded for its porcelain dinnerware, which featured transferware decorations that were brightened with hand-applied color. Patterns such as Mandarin, Ming, Lowell, and Autumn were all introduced around 1917 and ’18. That year, Woodrow Wilson became the first occupant of the White House to order a set of Lenox—the pattern was Command Performance, 1,700 pieces in all. FDR, Truman, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush are Lenox’s other presidential customers.