Franciscan Hand-Decorated Embossed Dinnerware

by James F. Elliot-Bishop

California-based Gladding, McBean & Co. began producing Franciscan dinnerware in the 1930s. Their introduction of Franciscan Apple in 1940 heralded a new product line featuring heavily sculpted, embossed dinnerware hand-decorated in brilliant colors. Desert Rose, introduced a year later, became the top selling dinnerware pattern in the world. Many additional patterns were produced through 1984, when the Franciscan plant in Glendale, California was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764319868
• ISBN13: 9780764319860
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.7" x 11.0"