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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 599841, member: 201&quot;]This small porcelain piece is just 4&quot; long. Would it be called a &quot;nut bowl&quot;? </p><p><br /></p><p>From what I&#039;ve seen on the web, the mark in red is for a Boston retailer. I haven&#039;t been able to find out what years they were in operation. I bought the bowl in an antiques shop in the greater Boston area in the 1990s, so the location fits.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to a collector&#039;s weekly article, the green mark, &quot;Elite L France,&quot; was used between 1896-1920. The article says...</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Bawo &amp; Dotter was established in New York City in the 1860s to import porcelain, especially from Limoges, into the USA. In the early 1870s they established The Elite Works in Limoges to decorate porcelain made by other factories. Their production included table china, decorative pieces and trinket boxes. Some of their marks incorporated St. Martial from the seal of the City of Limoges. Porcelain production was interrupted during WWI. Shortly after the war, they bought the William Guerin company (which had purchase the Pouyat company), and the company became Guerin-Pouyat-Elite, apparently continuing use of all three company marks. The company closed in 1932.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/60554-bawo-dotter-plate-marked-elite-works-eli" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/60554-bawo-dotter-plate-marked-elite-works-eli" rel="nofollow">https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/60554-bawo-dotter-plate-marked-elite-works-eli</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have thoughts on the decade in which my bowl was probably produced?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]177845[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]177846[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]177847[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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