Platter
- Object Name:
- Platter
- Object ID:
- 1959.032.76
- Date:
- 1830-1850
- Description:
- Platter. Ironstone, earthenware. Oblong shaped body with complex scalloped rim. Scroll handles on short ends, and twenty-four piercings in rim in groups of threes. Deep oval base ring present with slightly blue pooling. Front fully decorated with hand-painted floral scene in center and solid band of pink on rim. Pink band is edged in gold. Central flower is a purple and yellow tulip with three long leaves; small red and yellow flowers in the background. Impressed on bottom in upper case sans-serif letters "STONE CHINA". Paper label on reverse, with donor information.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Ironstone - Dimensions:
- H-1.9 W-11.25 D-8.7 inches
- Provenance:
- From dinner set said to have been used by donor's grandmother, Mrs. Jane Burgum Elkin (1822-1905), in Cuba. The family resided in Matanzas, Cuba, during the 1840s, and moved to Brooklyn, NY, around 1855.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Marion A. Elkin
- People:
- Elkin, Jane (1822-1905)
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