Plate
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Porcelain
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 10 in. ( 2.5 x 25.4 cm )
Description:
Porcelain plate with dished rim; decorated with penciled sepia trellis diaper and butterfly border ("Fitzhugh style"); central roundel with spear and post border and alternating diaper and animal figure panels containing an "H" for Hone family.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Louise Starr
Object Number:
1985.4-12
Marks:
painted: at center of roundel: "H"
Gallery Label:
This piece is part of a dinner service given as a wedding gift to John Hone II and Miss Marie Antoinette Kane (m. 1818). He was the nephew of Philip Hone (1780-1851), the prominent New York businessman, politican, and diarist.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
36874
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Cup plate
Classification:
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. ( 1.3 x 11.4 cm )
Description:
Glazed earthenware cup plate with scallop border and decorated with blue and white transfer printed image of Octagon Church, Boston surrounded by leaf and acorn border.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1940.194
Marks:
impressed: on back : "STEVENSON"
printed: on back: "STAUGHTON'S CHURCH PHILADELPHIA"
Gallery Label:
The Octagon Church is the building pictured on the plate; the potter mismarked the plate "Staughton's Church."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
36873
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Platter
Classification:
Date:
1815-1830
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/4 x 14 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. ( 3.2 x 37.5 x 29.8 cm )
Description:
Oval pearlware platter; dark blue transfer printed grouped large rose border; central city on a river (Columbus, Ohio) with three figures and a dog in the foreground.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Arthur H. Merritt
Object Number:
1961.277
Marks:
printed: on reverse: "COLUMBUS"
Provenance:
The Dr. Arthur H. Merritt Collection of Anglo-American Historical Staffordshire
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
36872
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Cup plate
Classification:
Date:
1851-1861
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall (a): 3/4 in. × 4 5/8 in. (1.9 × 11.7 cm)
Overall (b): 5/8 in. × 4 1/2 in. (1.6 × 11.4 cm)
Overall (c): 3/4
Description:
Glazed earthenware molded cup plate with light blue transfer print decoration of woman and man with spyglass in landscape with castle in distance, and border of diaper work, three classical buildings, and holly berries and leaves.
Credit Line:
The Jenny Lind Collection of Leonidas Westervelt
Object Number:
1945.315a-c
Marks:
impressed: on back: "Improved/Stone China"; "11" or "17" or "M" [?]
printed: in blue ink, worn in some areas: "Jenny Lind/CM & S"
impressed: on back of a: "II"
Provenance:
The Jenny Lind Collection of Leonidas Westervelt
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1861
eMuseum Object ID:
36871
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Plate: Fishkill, Hudson River
Classification:
Date:
1829-1826
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 10 1/2 in. ( 2.5 x 26.7 cm )
Description:
Molded pearlware plate with scalloped edge and decorated with blue transfer print image of the Hudson River near Fishkill, N.Y. surrounded by a bird, rose, and scroll border pattern.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Arthur H. Merritt
Object Number:
1961.137b
Marks:
printed: in blue on reverse: "Picturesquue View/nr Fishkill/Hudson River"
Provenance:
The Dr. Arthur H. Merritt Collection of Anglo-American Historical Staffordshire
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1826
eMuseum Object ID:
36870
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Plate
Classification:
Date:
1819-1836
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/4 x 10 5/8 in. ( 3.2 x 27 cm )
Description:
Scalloped edge glazed earthenware plate decorated in black transfer print wiith image of ferry boat " Pennsylvania" on river with buildings and landscape in background, and border of roses, birds, scrolls, and brackets on rim.
Object Number:
INV.14429b
Marks:
impressed: on back: in circle around image of crown "CLEWS WARRANTED STAFFORDSHIRE"
hand written: paper label affixed to back, in blue ink: "LAR/1.59"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1836
eMuseum Object ID:
36869
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Plate
Classification:
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. ( 3.2 x 26 cm )
Description:
Molded glazed earthenware plate decorated in black transfer print with image of ferry labeled "Alleghany" on canal with buildings, one labeled "Hope" and figures with border of sprigs of various flowers on rim.
Object Number:
INV.14429c
Marks:
printed: in black on back of rim: "Alleghany Scenery" /set in border rosettes "Peppard & Callan/importers/ Pittsburg"
typed: paper label affixed to back :"Bellevue Pottery not Staffordshire"; "Larsen 571 in her 1939 edition"
hand written: paper label af
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
36868
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Classification:
Date:
1820-1845
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. ( 1.9 x 17.1 cm )
Description:
Glazed earthenware plated decorated with blue and white transfer printed image of a town in the background and a boy fishing in the foreground, surrounded by a border of fruit and flowers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Arthur H. Merritt
Object Number:
1961.65
Marks:
printed: on back: "VEJAY"
impressed: on back : "5/25"
Provenance:
The Dr. Arthur H. Merritt Collection of Anglo-American Historical Staffordshire
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
36866
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Classification:
Date:
1840-1846
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/8 x 10 1/2 in. ( 2.9 x 26.7 cm )
Description:
Black transfer printed plate with scalloped edges with raised beads; the central image depicts a building(Transylvania University), trees, and three cows in the foreground; the border pattern is composed of fruits, berries, leaves, and flowers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Arthur H. Merritt
Object Number:
1961.125
Marks:
printed: in black on back: loose cartouche of flowers and leaves with "TRANSYLVANIA/UNIVERSITY/LEXINGTON/E.W.& S./CELTIC CHINA"
impressed: on back: letter "L"
Provenance:
The Dr. Arthur H. Merritt Collection of Anglo-American Historical Staffordshire
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1846
eMuseum Object ID:
36865
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1930-1955
Medium:
Whiteware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 3 1/4 in. ( 2.5 x 8.3 cm )
Description:
Whiteware plate with black and red line border and black transfer printed medallion flanked by scrolls.
Credit Line:
Gift of Ms. Dora Whitman Flukiger
Object Number:
1955.246
Marks:
typed: paper label on reverse: identifes railroad
stamped: on reverse: "97"
printed: on obverse: "DENVER & RIO GRANDE R.R./SCENIC LINE/OF THE/WORLD"
Gallery Label:
This plate is part of the Dauphin Collection of railroad china and dining car plates.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1955
eMuseum Object ID:
36853
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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