Antique Handpainted Porcelain Plate Featuring Lily of the Valley - Made by O & EG Royal Austria - Painted by Laporte circa 1899-1918 P-315-B Wheat is the symbol of

Wheat is the symbol of abundance

By the time this style of art landed itself in America and Europe in the 1850's

Look at the pattern quickly and you'll think it is some sort of lacy

they produced a range of dishes for both home and hotel use

Antique Handpainted Porcelain Plate Featuring Lily of the Valley - Made by O & EG Royal Austria - Painted by Laporte circa 1899-1918 P-315-B Wheat is the symbol of{HISTORY} Made in Austria between 1899 1918, this antique porcelain plate was handpainted by an artist named Laporte for the pottery O & E. G. Royal Austria. The O & E. G. in the pottery name stands for the owner's initials brothers Oscar and Edgar Gutherz who built up a reputation for creating some of the finest porcelain dishware in the world. It is always fun to draw connections between antique pieces that seemingly have nothing in common at all.