Description
4 c1900 8.25" hand painted Dresden plates. Selling the 4 plates shown, finest<br>quality painting and porcelain. Hand written retailers name Wright, Tyndale &<br>Van Roden Philadelphia on back of each. No damage, wear, or restorations to any.<br><br>Wright, Tyndale & Van Roden Philadelphia was a very high end store which<br>specialized in selling porcelain during the approximate period 1880 until 1930<br>in Philadelphia. It sold Minton historical scene plates as well as many other<br>Minton, Limoges and comparable quality makers of porcelain. Later, similar<br>stores were Caldwells and Bailey Banks. Its predecessor store had Tyndale in the<br>name.<br><br>The term "Dresden porcelain" refers more to an artistic movement than a<br>particular line of figurines or dinnerware. Several decorating studios emerged<br>in this Saxony capital in response to the rise of "Romanticism" during the 19th<br>century. Dresden was an important center of this artistic, cultural and<br>intellectual movement, which attracted painters, sculptors, poets, philosophers<br>and porcelain decorators alike. In 1883, in response to the exciting<br>developments happening all around them, four prominent ceramic decorators<br>registered the famous blue crown Dresden mark, and the widely popular "Dresden<br>style" was born.
