Soup Plate

Description:

This soup plate features a transfer print of the Staughton's Church building in Philadelphia 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.

Date Made: 1814-1830

Maker: J & W Ridgway

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United Kingdom: England, Hanley

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Credit Line: Ellouise Baker Larsen Collection of American Historical Staffordshire China

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: CE.62.909TCatalog Number: 62.909TAccession Number: 171126

Object Name: plate, soup

Physical Description: blue (inscription text color)monochrome, blue (overall surface decoration color name)ceramic (overall material)transfer printed (overall production method/technique)Measurements: overall: 1 1/8 in x 8 1/4 in; 2.8575 cm x 20.955 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-d1d4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_571580

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