Plate
Plate
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- Description
- This plate features a transfer print of the New York City Hall building and is part of J&W Ridgway's "Beauties of America" series, a blue transfer decorated dinner service decorated with views of American buildings and a border of roses on the vine, superimposed on regularly formed, lighter blue leaves.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- plate
- Object Type
- plate
- date made
- 1814-1830
- maker
- J & W Ridgway
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, Hanley
- Physical Description
- monochrome, blue (overall surface decoration color name)
- ceramic (overall material)
- transfer printed (overall production method/technique)
- blue (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 7/8 in x 9 3/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 24.765 cm
- ID Number
- CE.62.909O
- catalog number
- 62.909O
- accession number
- 171126
- Credit Line
- Ellouise Baker Larsen Collection of American Historical Staffordshire China
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Larsen Ceramics
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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