New York Central Country Garden Red Cranberry Transferware Charger Plate Restaur

This UNUSUAL plate is hard to find, grand and measures 11 3/4" across. The antique booth notes say that it was used as a used as a serving plate, charger, and was set as a marker in a formal table setting. Condition: No chips or rough spots. Has some utensil marks. Image is still beautiful! Probably a NYC restaurant piece. Charger plates serve both aesthetic and practical purposes. Visually, charger plates provide elegance and enhance table decor. Practically, they protect the table and tablecloth from becoming dirty during service and help retain heat in dinnerware. Buffalo China started about 1901, making a mishmash of porcelain products. In the 1920s and 1930s, they started marking commercial porcelain dinnerware for restaurants and institutions. For decades, they made incredibly excellent commercial dinnerware. At some point, Buffalo China came to be owned by Oneida. Under the leadership of John D. Larkin, Jr. (1877–1945) in the late 1920s, Buffalo Pottery changed its focus to manufacturing custom institutional, restaurant, railroad, steamship, and hotel ware. The company would produce ware for such entities as the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (George Washington and Chessie Cat services), the Greenbrier, the Ahwahnee Hotel at Yosemite, the Roycroft Inn, the 1939 New York World's Fair, and the US Navy. Features: • elegant country garden motif Size: 11.75" Condition: Pre-Owned Good No chips or rough spots. Has some utensil marks. Image is still beautiful! Probably a N