This is the last in our series on Floragold depression style glass from Jeannette. You can read the earlier posts here (bowls, interesting pieces, tumblers and pitchers, pattern background); today let’s look at plates.
This dinner plate is a good example. It is squarish with rounded corners, 8 1/2 inches measuring from side to side, has a rim and is recessed. It looks more like lunch plate than a dinner, but is the largest plate available that isn’t a serving size.
Floragold Iridescent Depression Style Glass Lunch Plate
Dinner plates are surprisingly hard to find. The set I got from Judy had only a couple of them. Despite the umpteen bowls available, Jeannette made only two sizes of dinnerware plates, the dinner shown above and the dual purpose sherbet plate/saucer.
The sherbet plate lacks a cup ring but it’s sized to fit the cups and it’s the only piece available for a saucer. You can see how deeply the center is recessed; cups aren’t going to slide around even without the cup ring.
Floragold Saucer or Sherbet Plate
There is a round tray available too, and also a quite rare plate, 11 3/4 inches across, that is scalloped and shaped just like the Iris and Herringbone plates. I wonder whether Jeannette initially intended to make that size into the dinner plates but decided to stick with the squarish shape.
This concludes our series on Jeannette Floragold, a pattern with a pretty design and several interesting accessory pieces. If you enjoy iridescent glass this would be a good time to consider collecting Floragold as it’s reasonably available and affordable.