Collection Highlights
Stained glass window
Date:
ca. 1656
Object Number:
1951.414c
Medium:
Glass
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Plate: Fort Gansevoort
Object Number:
1940.181
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 7/16 x 5 1/4 in. ( 1.1 x 13.3 cm )
Marks:
printed: on back: "Fort Gansevoort"in cartouche
Description:
Glazed pearlware plate with scallop edge and decorated with blue and white transfer printed images of Fort Gansevoort surrounded by leaf and vine border.
Gallery Label:
Fort Ganseevort was erected between Tenth Avenue and West 12th Street in 1812, and it was demolished in 1849.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
