Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Fountainebleau Motor Hotel Date of cup: 1966 Notes: The Fontainebleau Motor Hotel which resided on Tulane Avenue and S. Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans closed its doors circa mid-to-late 1980s. The building is currently being used as Xavier University dormitory housing and climate-controlled public storage units.

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Fontainebleau Hotel Date of cup: April 1956 Notes: From the hotel's website (and with apologies for its grandiose descriptions): "Hotelier Ben Novack purchased the Firestone Mansion, home of auto tire magnate Harvey Firestone, in 1952 for $2.3 million. He tapped Morris Lapidus, who was known for his modernist sensibilities

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Co. User: Folies Bergère, New York City Date: 1911 Notes: On April 27, 1911, popular vaudeville entrepreneurs Henry B. Harris and Jesse Lasky premiered a new concept in New York: a dinner cabaret with entertainment patterned after its Paris namesake, the Folies Bergere. Declared "more Parisian than Paris"

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern: Flowers of the Southland Date of plate: 1968   Notes: Flowers of the Southland is an old, popular stock pattern made by Syracuse China with its floral sprays of hibiscus, jessamine and poinsettia and black line on the rim. The version here shows the design on a

Manufacturer: Jackson China Pattern Description: Flower (Green Airbrushed) Date of plate: 1970 Notes: White body with stenciled airbrushed stems of dark green leaves and buds with a single, large open flower.

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern Description: Flower (Airbrushed) Date of saucer: 1946 Notes: Airbrushed single-stemmed flower – commonly believed to be a daffodil but is most likely a cattleya orchid – shown below in burnt orange or rust brown on a tan body (Adobe Ware). There is an airbrushed lavender color variation

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern: Floristan Date of plate: circa 1930s – 1940s Notes: Decaled blue, red, and orange floral pattern on an ivory body.

Manufacturer: Fraunfelter China User: Floridian Hotel Distributor: Albert Pick & Co., Chicago Date of matchstand: 1923 – 1927 Notes: Located at 540 West Avenue (the eastern entrance to Miami Beach, FL), the 9-story, 252-room Floridian Hotel, built by Carl Fisher, opened its doors in February 1926. It soon became a popular

Manufacturer: Buffalo China Pattern: Floridian Pattern: NOT Chicago and Great Western; NOT Legionnaire Distributor: Albert Pick & Co. Date of platter: 1925   Notes: A 1932 Albert Pick-Barth catalog identifies this Buffalo pattern as Floridian, with the following description: "Buffalo Vitrified China, with rolled edge. Decorated underglaze with Spanish decalcomania border