Plate
- Title:
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (inclined plane)
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.168
- Creator:
- Wood, Enoch & Sons
- Place of Origin:
- Burslem, Staffordshire, England
- Date:
- circa 1828
- Description:
- Plate. Transfer-printed earthenware. Circular plate with upward curving rim, which is shaped into eight, slightly rounded sections. Underglaze, transfer-printed design in deep blue. Central scene on inner surface, encircled by narrow band and undulating line, shows landscape with two inclined-railroad tracks, stationary engine and building at top of hill, four empty cars on nearer track, and three cars filled with coal on more distant track. Level line of cars in background. Border has groupings of shells, with decorative band near rim. Reverse undecorated. Figure "50" printed in blue underglaze on bottom. Impressed mark "2" on bottom.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware - Dimensions:
- H-1 Dia-9.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Martha Durgin (b.1833) of Concord, NH. She probably began her collection in the late 1880s-early 1890s.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Martha E. Durgin
- Subjects:
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Coal mining
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