I have a set of 8 dinner plates and a complete luncheon service that were painted around 1911. Lovely hand painted roses adorn every piece. The colors are soft pastels, very dainty but elegant and a labor of love by the painter.
Your plates sound beautiful.
The world needs more beauty, all this hard plastic so called beauty, modern junk, is ugly to me.
There was a time when we had good china for special dinners and used handmade items.
Not so today.
I am so glad you still have a set of the beautiful dishes that we once used.
Those old plates were often hung on the walls as a decoration, I know I did for years, bought them whenever I saw one that I liked and added it to my wall.
In the old china catalogs, you will find blank plates for painting on.
I think it went out, about 1920.