Collection Highlights
Portrait of an Unidentified Woman
Date:
ca. 1700-1725
Object Number:
1952.80
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Fish set (15 pieces)
Object Number:
1996.1a-o
Date:
1870-1890
Medium:
Porcelain
Description:
Fifteen-piece porcelain fish set consisting of fish platter, sauce boat and underplate, and 12 plates; all hand-painted with sea flora and fauna.
Gallery Label:
This porcelain fish set was a wedding present to New Yorker George W. Sutton, Jr. and Bostonian Margaret Bates Shaw, who were married in 1886. Each piece is hand-painted with different varieties of sea flora and fauna. The Suttons lived in Harlem at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 135th Street and moved to New Rochelle by 1899. Their cousin, Effingham Sutton, was responsible for developing Sutton Place about 1875.
Credit Line:
Gift of Ione Sutton, 1995
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
