{"product_id":"jackson-china-jac-tan-plates-trio-c-1930s-1940s-stenciled-american-restaurant-ware","title":"Jackson China Jac-Tan Plates, Trio, c. 1930s–1940s Stenciled American Restaurant Ware","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree side plates from the roadside-café America of the 1930s: Jackson China's \"Jac-Tan\" — a warm tan vitrified body, dressed with a stenciled border in deep cranberry. The pattern is quietly Deco: crosshatched squares and swooping arcs repeating around the rim, applied by airbrush through a stencil at production speed, which gives the color its soft, powdery edges. Against the tan ground it reads like calico — sturdier than it is pretty, and prettier than it has any right to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach plate carries the keystone backstamp — VITRIFIED JAC-TAN, JACKSON CHINA, MADE IN U.S.A. — the Pennsylvania mark of a pottery that fed the nation's lunch counters for most of a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistory\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Jackson China Company of Falls Creek, Pennsylvania — deep in the state's clay-and-coal country, hence the keystone in the mark — was one of America's workhorse commercial potteries, supplying diners, hotels, railroads, and institutions from the 1910s onward. Jac-Tan was their signature twist on the form: where most restaurant ware was white, Jackson fired a tan body that hid coffee stains and knife marks, then trimmed it with stenciled and airbrushed borders in the Deco taste of the 1930s and '40s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTan-bodied ware with these stenciled borders belongs to the golden age of the American café — thick enough to survive the dish pit, styled enough to make a blue-plate special feel like an occasion. Jackson pressed on into the 1980s, but it is these prewar-pattern pieces that collectors of diner china seek out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003cthead\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eAttribute\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eDetail\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/thead\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePeriod\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ec. 1930s–1940s\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOrigin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFalls Creek, Pennsylvania\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaker\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eJackson China Co.; keystone \"Vitrified Jac-Tan\" backstamp to each\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTan vitrified restaurant china, stenciled airbrush decoration\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eStyle\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAmerican Deco \/ diner ware\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePieces\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTrio of side plates; diameters to be confirmed\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCondition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVery good vintage condition. Light utensil marks and scattered toning consistent with service use; borders strong, no chips or cracks noted. Condition Guaranteed.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy It Belongs In Your Home\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tan-and-cranberry palette is the sleeper here — warmer than white ironstone, and it makes wood tones hum. Three plates is exactly enough to work: stacked on open shelving, standing in a plate rack, or in rotation as the household's dedicated toast-and-pie plates. They pair naturally with Homer Laughlin whites and mustard yellows for a collected American-café shelf, and they carry the great diner-china virtue: nearly a century old and still entirely unafraid of breakfast.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viridian Eclection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47820761596009,"sku":null,"price":76.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/0093\/9369\/files\/DSC01504.jpg?v=1784682018","url":"https:\/\/viridianeclection.com\/products\/jackson-china-jac-tan-plates-trio-c-1930s-1940s-stenciled-american-restaurant-ware","provider":"Viridian Eclection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}