Manufacturer: Syracuse China
User: Hotel Willard
Pattern Name(s): P-30 floral sprays, P-29 edge treatment
Distributor: Dulin & Martin Co.
Date of plate: 1929

From the same binder of overglazed designs, the plate floral pattern

From a binder of overglazed designs, the plate's border pattern

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Notes: Located at 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the 12-story, 450-room Hotel Willard opened its doors in 1901. The Beaux-Arts hotel was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, who also planned the Waldorf-Astoria (New York) and drew the plans for the Plaza. In 1925, a 61-room addition was completed.

The Willard family sold its share of the hotel in 1946 and the hotel closed in July 1968. It remained vacant for the next 16 years, until after an extended legal battle, the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation purchased the property with its partners the Oliver Carr Company and InterContinental Hotels Group. Together, they renovated and expanded the facilities over a period of two years and the hotel reopened on August 20, 1986. The formal hotel opening celebration took place in late September 1986.

Today (2017), the hotel is in business as the Willard InterContinental Washington, D.C., and has 335 guest rooms and suites.

This sample plate on an Ivory body was the afternoon tea service for the Willard. While less formal than the general service china, it is similar in the strong use of black as an accent color in the ragged borders and greenery.

Below the photos, from the Syracuse archives see the variety of pieces ordered from Syracuse in this pattern, with note that "special heavy" versions of the fine-china Governor Winthrop shape tea cups and bouillons were ordered for the Willard. This pattern must have been quite striking with the addition of the black handles on the ware, too.

For related info:
Willard Hotel
Willard Hotel 2

Willard Hotel Afternoon Tea Service
U.G. and O.G. Decoration P-30 Sprays with P-29 treatment at edge, on Ivory body as approved.
Note: Solid Black handles
Sample #10486.
Order entered on 10/1/29.
Distributor: Dulin & Martin Co.
• Items:
• Tea cups – Sp. Hvy., G.W.
• Tea saucers, G.W.
• #2 Tea Pot Bodies, Mayf.
• #2 Tea Pot Covers, Mayf.
• #1 Tea Pot Bodies, Mayf.
• #1 Tea Pot Covers, Mayf.
• Cocoa Pot Bodies, Empire
• Cocoa Pot Covers, Empire
• 6 Plates, Mayf.
• #3 Celeries, Empire
• Cake covers, Penn
• Waffle covers, Elite
• 8 Plates, Mayf.
• Med. Creams, Mayf.
• Med. Sugar Bodies, Mayf.
• Med. Sugar Covers, Mayf.

ID and photos contributed by Bill Calnan