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American bone china manufacturer

Lenox Corporation is an American manufacturing company that sells tableware, giftware, and collectible products under the Lenox, Dansk, Reed & Barton, Gorham, and Oneida brands. For most of the 20th century, it was the most prestigious American maker of tableware, and the company produced other decorative pieces as well. Several Lenox china services were commissioned for the White House. By 2020, it was the last significant manufacturer of bone china in the United States, until the COVID 19 pandemic forced the closure of the company's only remaining American factory.

Lenox was founded in 1889 by Walter Scott Lenox as Lenox's Ceramic Art Company in Trenton, New Jersey. In 1983, Lenox was acquired by Brown Forman Corporation. The Lenox company archives, not purchased by Department 56, were donated to several repositories. China related archival documents were donated to the Rutgers University Libraries. The historical china collections were given to the Newark Museum and the New Jersey State Museum. On March 16, 2009, Clarion Capital Partners purchased the assets of Lenox and renamed the company Lenox Corporation. Lenox continued some manufacture of bone china dinnerware at its plant in Kinston, North Carolina, built in 1989. The plant is situated on Its manufacturing capabilities included enamel dot, etch, color, and microwave metals, and eventually became Lenox's only American factory until its closure in 2020. In a bankruptcy auction conducted in April 2015, the operating assets of Reed & Barton, a competing maker of flatware, were acquired by Lenox. Lenox's brands include Kate Spade New York, Marchesa by Lenox, and Brian Gluckstein by Lenox. Lenox ceased production at the Kinston factory on March 18, 2020, due to concerns over the COVID 19 pandemic; on April 17 the company announced that the closure would become permanent, with production expected to resume overseas. In July 2020 Lenox announced that they would permanently close all of their outlet and warehouse stores, also citing the COVID 19 pandemic. In October 2020, Lenox was acquired by private equity firm Centre Lane Partners. In June 2021, Lenox acquired its erstwhile competitor Oneida.

Lenox was the first North American bone china to be used in the White House, and the company has since made tableware for six U. S. presidents. They are officially titled:
The Wilson Service: Designed by Frank Holmes. Delivered to the White House between August and November 1918. The pattern is a deep ivory border surrounding a brighter ivory body and two bands of matte gold encrusted with stars, stripes and other motifs. This first set of American made tableware of 1,700 pieces from Lenox cost $16,000. The Bush Service: Laura Bush first displayed this newest service on January 7, 2009. The porcelain place setting service features a green basket weave border based on a French dinner service believed to have been owned by James and Dolley Madison. The dessert plates replicate a laurel wreath found on Madison's Parisian c. 1799 1805 dinner plates. The serving plates and the rim of other pieces also feature an eagle emblem inspired by an American bald eagle inlay found on the center drawer of the Massachusetts sideboard, believed to have been owned by Daniel Webster.