Collection Highlights
Subway controller
Date:
1904
Object Number:
1922.103
Medium:
Silver, steel, ebony
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Plate
Object Number:
1985.13
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Porcelain
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 10 in. ( 2.5 x 25.4 cm )
Marks:
painted: at center of roundel: "H"
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.
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.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Louise Starr
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
