vintage jaguar decorative plate painter guy coheleach №d limited ed lenox plate

Description

the decorative dish
i can find no issues. this has only been displayed, then stored. this dish depicts the magnificent jaguar as painted by reknowned wildlife painter guy coheleach (you can read more on him below). apparently the artist did a limited series with lenox entitled «royal cats plate collection» by lenox (you can see more about them below). the artist's signature is also present in the painting.the plate is individually numbered. kind of a side note - i love the border of this plate: it is a nice gold border on the thicker side and has what i would describe as a thick tilde (~) as some photo negative space to the gold border. it's just really cool and a very nice finishing touch. (see second image.)
the decorative plate is 8" in diameter. the rim of the plate is 3/4" away from the surface on which the plate rests.
the reverse of the plate has alot of information on it (all in that lenox gold) [see last image]
jungle jaguar by guy coheleach
[a bonus depiction of a jaguar]
from the guy coheleach's royal cats plate collection
plate number a4582 [handwritten]
not for food use - food consumed from this vessel may be harmful.
for decorative purposes only.
[lenox logo]
lenox
© lenox
1994
about artist guy coheleach
(from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Coheleach)
guy coheleach is an american wildlife artist. his paintings have been in 41 one-man retrospective exhibitions in major museums in 36 cities from new york to los angeles from 1991 to 2011. along with over a hundred one-man commercial shows worldwide, his work has also been exhibited in the national collection of fine art, the royal ontario museum, the white house, washington d.c.'s corcoran gallery, the norton gallery and the newark museum.
visiting heads of state have received his american eagle print, and he was the first Western artist to exhibit in peking after world war ii. coheleach became a charter member of the world wildlife fund's «the 1001: a nature trust» in 1972. his endowment at the university of tennessee provides about six full scholarships to the school of wildlife management each year.
coheleach was born in new york city in 1933.
he grew up at baldwin, long island, one of nine children. he began sketching and drawing around age ten. he was fascinated by the wildlife in the area including jones beach and baldwin bay. he studied gulls, and other waterfowl. he also collected snakes, and kept them in the family's basement.
he attended bishop loughlin high school in brooklyn, n.y. he won a scholarship to cooper union school of art in new york city. he served in the korean war as the sp-2 for the 65th combat engineers attached to the 25th infantry division. much later, he received an honorary doctor of arts from william and mary.
after graduating from cooper union, he began a career in commercial art. this ranged from illustrating mail order catalogs to designing candy boxes. he wondered whether he could earn a living painting wildlife art.
the national wildlife federation annually produced promotional stamps with the images of birds, animals, plants, trees, and fish. it was popular nationwide. coheleach created four animal paintings, and submitted them for possible conservation stamps. the organization's art editor, roger tory peterson, accepted two of them, and commissioned more.
in the years that followed, he won many wildlife art awards, successfully sold prints and books of his work, and traveled across the world studying wildlife.
his first trip to africa was accomplished as a result of winning his division in the 1966 winchester national trap and skeet championship and he has returned to africa between one and five times a year since then.
not content with skydiving and hunting cape buffalo, coheleach took his need for field experience to the extreme. in 1972 he was run down by an elephant in zambia. this hair-raising film was seen on all three major networks at the time. «this is exactly the kind of knowledge that has made him one of the best wild animal painters in the world admired by both scientists and art critics,» says pat robertson in sporting classics.
pbs featured him and his work in africa entitled
journeys of an artist
. he was also the subject of two films:
guy coheleach and the bald eagle and quest: an artist and his prey
. in addition, he has been the focus of articles in
reader's digest
,
saturday evening post
,
national wildlife magazine
, and
audubon
, as well as many other regional art and wildlife magazines.
his paintings have received the society of animal artists' award of excellence an extraordinary eight times, and he was awarded the prestigious master artist medal from the leigh yawkey woodson art museum in 1983. in 2012 he received a lifetime achievement award from the society of animal artists.
the big cats: the paintings of guy coheleach
by abrams was a book of the month club selection in 1982. both it and his
coheleach: master of the wild
are out of print. guy coheleach's
animal art
by ddr publishing is still available. his highly acclaimed book
the african lion as man-eater
was published in 2004. coheleach's text in this book is embellished by over 100 of his paintings.
about lenox
(from: collectorsweekly.com/china-and-dinnerware/lenox)
before he co-founded the ceramic art company in 1889 with jonathan coxon, walter scott lenox worked at ott and brewer of trenton, new jersey, a city that was home to some 200 potteries. in the late 19th century, the ceramic art company was just one of many producers of porcelain inspired by belleek.
actually, it was more than a case of mere inspiration; william bromley, sr, who ran ott and brewer beginning in 1883, had worked at the famous irish pottery. even before his arrival, o & b was using the word «belleek» on its mark. thus, lenox's training as a designer was steeped in belleek.
like a lot of us porcelain makers in the 19th century, the ceramic art company employed a cream-colored, soft-paste-porcelain clay body called parian, which aped the look of belleek. one of its most popular early ceramic art company pieces was a swan-shaped dish (lenox still makes a swan dish today, although its details are somewhat simplified). other influences included the best wares produced in limoges, france, the english china of royal worcester, and dinnerware imported from japan.
in 1894, lenox became the sole owner of the ceramic art company; in 1906, the name of the firm was changed to reflect this arrangement. that same year, the san francisco retailer shreve & co. received an order of lenox china—all but one plate was destroyed in the great san francisco earthquake. the surviving plate was subsequently used in numerous lenox advertising campaigns.
order from tiffany's in new york came next and soon lenox was well regarded for its porcelain dinnerware, which featured transferware decorations, brightened with hand-applied color. patterns such as mandarin, ming, lowell, and autumn were all introduced around 1917 and '18. that year, woodrow wilson became the first occupant of the white house to order a set of lenox—the pattern was command performance, 1,700 pieces in all. fdr, truman, reagan, clinton, and bush are lenox's other presidential customers.
in the 1920s, chief designer frank holmes created pattern after pattern, including eternal, rutledge, and fountain, which took its cue from art deco. during this time, and continuing until 1930, the firm's mark featured an «l» within a wreath, with the word «lenox» below.
world war ii interrupted the firm's consumer products, but not its innovation. in particular, lenox developed lenoxite, which was used in insulators and radar equipment.
during the mid-century modern 1950s, patterns such as westwind and jewel were among lenox's best sellers. in those years, lenox also introduced numerous giftware pieces, from ballerinas and other figurines to boxes and vases. pop art-inspired patterns such as innovation followed in the '60s, when lenox also produced inexpensive, plastic, melmac ware.
in the early 1970s, lenox made an annual limited-edition plate featuring artwork by naturalist edward marshall boehm. each plate had a 24-karat-gold edge, and images ranged from a wood thrush in 1970 to a cardinal in 1976. in 1973, lenox followed this series with one called woodland wildlife, which featured depictions of raccoons, rabbits, and foxes.
finally, like royal copenhagen, royal albert, johnson brothers, noritake, and spode, lenox has made numerous christmas plates over the years, in patterns such as sleighride and holly. lenox also produced christmas tree ornaments, from porcelain bells to little drummer boys, angels, and stars.
marker's and/or other marks
the reverse of the plate has alot of information on it (all in that lenox gold) [see last image]
jungle jaguar by guy coheleach
[a bonus depiction of a jaguar]
from the guy coheleach's royal cats plate collection
plate number a4582 [handwritten]
not for food use - food consumed from this vessel may be harmful.
for decorative purposes only.
[lenox logo]
lenox
© lenox
1994
dimensions
the decorative plate is 8" in diameter. the rim of the plate is 3/4" away from the surface on which the plate rests.
condition
i can find no issues. this has only been displayed, then stored.
the fine print
the images are the majority of the listing description, so take a look at them closely.
shipping costs have really increased—this is calculated into the buy-it-now price.
i am not able to sell individual items from items i have listed as a group. i just don't have the stamina to create new listings for those. i apologize for that. i haven't initially individually listed items because i don't have enough listing slots to so.
trying to downsize some, though extremely melancholically.
shipping time: i otherwise work more than full time and my health isn't great, so kindly excuse the longer handling time. if i am able to ship sooner, i absolutely will do that
. i appreciate you taking the time to view my listing.