Manufacturer: Shenango China
User: Hotel Fresno
Date of platter: 1951

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In addition to Shenango, Maddock and Scammell China also were known suppliers of this same pattern (called #7010 Three Ornaments) and found with a Maddock's Trenton China backstamp and a Scammell's Trenton China backstamp. They would have preceded production of this Shenango platter.

The design consists of what many consider to be dragonfly ornaments spaced around the ware, but they are actually a motif in green consisting of a torch within a circle of beads, topped with a bow. In addition, there is the HOTEL FRESNO crest in white letters outlined in green, set against a fig with smaller clusters of grapes and leaves behind it. (Fresno, located in the fertile San Joaquin Valley, is an important supplier in the United States of dried figs.)

Photos contributed by HotelFresno
ID information contributed by HotelFresno and L Paul