VTG Edgewater Hotel Laughlin Nevada Restaurant Ware Plates & Mugs 2 Sets For Sale

Vintage Homer Laughlin hotel/food-service china, rather than the better-known solid-color Fiesta line. Homer Laughlin produced extensive commercial dinnerware for hotels, restaurants, and institutional use, including decorated patterns.

The large plate is particularly distinctive:

• White/ivory ceramic body with a broad, gently raised rim.

• Approximately 12 inches across, giving it a substantial hotel/restaurant-dinner-plate feel.

• The decoration is a nautical/underwater theme, centered around a small orange-gold fish with blue detailing.

• Around the rim are cobalt/medium-blue brushstrokes, stylized blue foliage or seaweed, orange-gold accent strokes, and areas resembling blue water with white bubbles or pebbles.

• The decoration is deliberately asymmetrical rather than a repeating geometric border, giving it a hand-painted or hand-brushed appearance.

• The fish itself is charmingly stylized: orange/gold body, blue markings, a dark eye, and small reddish/orange details, almost like a little tropical fish.

• The wide decorated rim leaves a large plain white center, which is typical of commercial tableware designed to frame food.

Homer Laughlin\'s catalog specifically lists a “Blue Fish” pattern, number 8304, associated with its rolled-edge dinnerware, and another commercial catalog describes Blue Fish 8304 as “with Cobalt.”

The two small pieces at the top are especially interesting because they don\'t look like modern mugs. They appear to be small hotel-style coffee cups:

• Cream/ivory ground matching the plates.

• Blue and orange fish decoration around the exterior.

• Blue brushstroke/wave-like accents.

• Small, curved loop handles.

• Relatively small capacity, consistent with traditional hotel/restaurant coffee service rather than today\'s oversized coffee mug.

• The decoration coordinates closely with the fish dinner plates.

The Homer Laughlin commercial catalogs show that their various china bodies were offered with matching cups, saucers, plates and other service pieces, and the company produced dinnerware specifically for hotels and other hospitality settings.