Liberty Queen's Ware Plate
Liberty Queen's Ware Plate
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- Description (Brief)
- Ivory-colored ceramic plate with the "Liberty" motif consisting of a center shield with the American Stars and Stripes surrounded by eleven Allied flags from World War I, including (from left to right) Cuba, Romania, Montenegro, Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Russia, Japan, Portugal, and Serbia. Lillian Gary Taylor designed and sold Liberty China and Queen's Ware to raise funds to support charitable relief organizations during WWI.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- plate
- Object Type
- plate
- date made
- April 6, 1917 - November 11, 1918
- commissioner
- Taylor, Lillian Gary
- maker
- Wedgwood and Sons, Ltd, Josiah
- Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, Staffordshire
- Physical Description
- polychrome (overall surface decoration color name)
- ceramic, earthenware, refined (overall material)
- gilt (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 19.685 cm
- ID Number
- 1980.0790.03
- accession number
- 1980.0790
- catalog number
- 1980.0790.03
- Credit Line
- Dr. Victor Polikoff and Mrs. Muriel Polikoff
- subject
- World War I
- Women's History
- Charity Organizations
- coat-of-arms
- Flags
- Fund Raising
- Liberty
- Patriotic
- Tea Drinking
- World War I
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Liberty China
- Military
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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