It is probable that Eva Zeisel's most widely honored design was her Museum Dinnerware for Castleton China. The design (shape) has been recognized as a signal achievement by nearly every design group and industry publication, and by art critics in all venues.  It is often assumed that the dishes were made only in White, which was the pattern used when it was released by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1945. Castleton, however, used the shapes as the basis for several decorations which it commissioned later, and even for decorative plates by outstanding artists or for commemorative plates for important cultural and historic events and personages.  We are very proud to be able to offer some of these outstanding pieces.  A partial listing  of patterns used on the Museum shapes: Thistle, French Garden,  Golden Meadow, Wisteria, Lyana, Green Thumb, Constellation, Mandalay, Contempo,  Symmetra, Persian Brocada, Royal Baroness,  Dawn Rose, Blue Rose, Classic Scroll, Cellini, Rhythm, and several hand-painted plates.  Artists who were commissioned to decorate plates include Modigliani, Picasso, Andrew Wyeth, Marcel Vertes,  Stuart Davis, Ralph Ellender, Marc Chagall, and Nicholas L. Retkes.   Most were released under the Castleton mark, but some were released with the marks of  subsidiary groups American Manor,  Reynolds China and Interpace, all part of the Shenango companies.  All production of these pieces ceased in the early '60's when Shenango was sold.   Not all of these pieces have bottom stamps,  but all are guaranteed to be as represented.

Museum White                

         13 bread & butters   $18.00 each  - all with bottom stamps

            1 cup & saucer set  $35.00 - with bottom stamps

            3 cup & saucer sets  $30.00 each,  cups only have bottom stamp

            3 cup & saucer sets $25.00 each, no bottom stamps

            3 cups  $20.00 each,  no bottom stamp

            

French Garden, pattern by Marcel Vertes.  Pansy faces and greenery -- very playful

 

7 saucers,  $10 each

                               

 

                                  

 

Wisteria - has sprays of flowers and leaves in pink, purple, 

mauve, lavender and gray.  A very soft look.

 

4  dinner plates              $21.00 ea

2 bread & butters           $8.00 ea (colors faded)

1  salad plate                $3.00 ea (color faded)

1 tall cup & saucer        $30.00/set

 

 

 

                                               

 

 Mandalay 

The decoration for these Museum dinnerware pieces was created by the well-known Chinese artist Ching Chih Yee, and is one of the more popular  of the patterns commissioned by Castleton for Zeisel's shapes.

 

2 dinner plates                   $18.00 each 

1 salad plate                   $12.00 each 

2 bread-and-butters            $10.00 each 

   

 

                               

 

Lyana - created by Philip R Costigan, this decoration has a swirl of tropical leaves in black and gold; a very exotic look, originally created for the Royal house of Norway

                               

 

        6 dinner plates, 10-1/2"          $18.00 ea 

 

                       

       4 round salad plates, 8-1/2"     12.00 each

 

 

                            

       

 

 

 

 

                           

        4 flat cups & saucers                 20.00 each set

        

          1 saucer                                     10.00

                                                       

 

        4 fruit dishes, 4-1/2"                  15.00 each

            

        

 

 

 

 

 

Symmetra - Rare - Classic white with a very thin rim in silver or gold

1   dinner plate  silver       $18.00

1   butter pat, silver         $16.00  each

1  AD cup, gold (no saucer)     $20.00

 

                                     

                                     

Golden Meadow - Rare - A spray of leaves in gold

1   dinner plate           $18.00

1   salad plate            $10.00

1   bread & butter       $10.00                                      

1   vegetable dish,11'" $30.00

                    

   

 

 

 

Classic Scroll - scrolls with blue & tan flowers around the edge, with a gold rim.

1 dinner plate, 10-1/2"   $18.00

1 butter pat             $16.00

1  fruit dish 5-1/2"    $15.00

               

 

Decorative Salad Plate - 8-1/4"

$25.00 each

1 Cellini - sprays of flowers around the periphery of the plate, in blue, pink, green,& gold

 

1 Cellini

1 dinner plate, 10-1/2"   $18.00

1 salad plate, 8-1/4"        $12.00

 

 

Scandia - lavender and gray flowers and leaves

    1 saucer  $5.00

           

 

Blue Rose

     1  flat cup (no saucer) $20.00

           

 

Midnight Halo

 

     1 creamer - black & platinum bands  $40.00

      - has Reynolds bottom stamp, one of several used when Museum       ware was being used as premiums

        

 

           

    

   

 

Decorative Dinner Plates 10-1/2"

 

Thistle,  a pink flower on grey foliage, with a thin silver band on the edge of the plate.

Rhythm - a central swirl in crimson and gold

1 each at $25.00

  1 Rhythm 

   1 Thistle

 

 

 

Studio Design Plate (Bird of Fancy)   $25.00

 

Bird of Fancy, 10 ^1/2"

 

 

 

 

 

Native American Heroes Commemorative Plates

These plates honor  two great leaders of the Iroquois League:

  Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha), 1758-1830), Chief of the Senecas.  Artist, Charles Bird King  

Cornplanter (Gyanthwahia) (1750-1836), Chief of the Senecas.   Artist: F. Bartoli

Each of these plates is limited to an edition of 1776 sets.

$50.00 each;   

                    

  Red Jacket

        

 

 

                                                                                               Corn Planter

                                     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year of the Child Commemorative Plate

In 1979 Castleton created this plate as a tribute to all children, for the International Year of the Child.   Pictures five children of  many nations against a gold map of the world.  Reverse has wording of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

$25.00

                       

 

 

 

 

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