Featured Printed convex medallion - Hotel Lenox

This is something I posted on Ebay long ago. My parents had a second hand store so my mother kept a lot of esoteric stuff that appealed to her. This is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2". Printed with a pre-Raphaelite type face on a convex front, it has an attached rose with ribbon and text on the back. It says Hotel Lenox, Boston. Some thought it went on a door or a box of chocolates or something, but it wouldn't be double sided. Interesting little souvenir in any case.

What does everyone here think it came off of?

 

Probably not off anything - just a souvenir from the hotel. Is it a print or a painting?

 

Looks like a hangs-around-collects-dust to me.

 

I have far too many of those gizmos.

 

I'd get a little easel and display it.

 

Ooh. I have a tiny cup and saucer holder for a miniature. I was thinking of trying to hang it up, though. If it's hanging up, it's not on a surface I have to dust, therefore I have fewer items to move when I dust. IF I dust.

 

I've stayed at the Lenox in Boston, MA - it's a really nice place!

I was looking at that portrait & wondering if it somehow had anything to do with the history of the hotel (tho I wasn't sure how anything pre-Raphaelite might...)

Anyway, when I went to the hotel's own website and read, "...a ‘rags-to-riches’ hotel impresario known as Lucius Boomer had just erected Boston’s tallest building — a $1.1 million, 11-story Beaux-Arts hotel, which he would name for Lady Sarah Lennox, wife of King George, III," I sort of gave up.

First, as far as I recall, Sarah Lennox was never married to George, and second, even if she were, why the heck would such a hotel in MA be named after her in 1900? (In a distant 3rd, this image looks nothing like her, anyway.)

I was also wondering if maybe there was a Lenox Hotel in Boston in the UK, but I didn't find anything there, either.

Still a mystery.

 

I'm pretty sure it's the Lenox in Boston.

 

Can you see what it says on the ribbons between the "rose" and the Hotel Lenox line?

 

En la rose je fleurie

https://www.google.ca/search?sclien...0...1c.1.64.tablet-gws..0.10.1086.9JKAhETSJck

 

Thanks, desperate!

 

It is the family motto for a family with the surname "Moss"

I flourish in the rose

 

It might be a print of a painting on display at the hotel.

 

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The hotel was built in 1900 and this looks like it's that era. I wonder if it was a gift to early patrons.

 

Did I miss it or did I just not see what it was the oval was made of?? Is it
a porcelain oval?

 

Found a connection of "En la rose je fleurie" to the Lenox hotel in Boston. This motto was on a banner across a rose on the hotel's china used before 1920. It seems "... 'I flourish in the rose,' [is] a motto for the Lennox family, although the hotel spells its name differently." The woman was probably just for looks to go along with a rose.

http://www.restaurantwarecollectors.com/forums/showwiki.php?title=Lenox-Hotel

This certainly doesn't answer your question on purpose, just add it to ones trivia section of the brain for future Jeopardy shows!

--- Susan

 

I love it. Antique Forum Trivia.

 

It's from the Duke of Richmond family crest.There's a Lennox rose on the collar and the family motto 'En la rose Je Fleurie.....Like the rose I flourish. Hotel Lenox Boston.

 

Here is another