Plate
- Title:
- City Hotel, New York
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.165
- Creator:
- Stevenson, Ralph
Ceramicist ; Williams, Aldborough; Dick, A. L. - Place of Origin:
- Staffordshire, England
- Date:
- 1825
- Description:
- Plate. Blue, pearlware. 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 shows City Hotel in New York as predominant feature in street scene (built 1794), which also includes a church steeple in the background, a wood pile and a wooden cross on the ground with two men by it in the foreground, and a man on horseback and two men chopping wood in middle ground. Acorn and oak leaf border on beaded ground. Reverse undecorated. Printed mark on bottom: "CITY HOTEL / NEW YORK". Two additional underglaze marks on the bottom appear to be a dot and a square.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware - Dimensions:
- H-0.9 Dia-8.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Martha Durgin (b.1833) of Concord, NH. She probably began her collection in the late 1880s-early 1890s.
Source of view is a drawing by A. L. Dick. The hotel was begun in 1794 and demolished in 1849. Ralph Stevenson and Aldborough Williams were partners in 1825. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Martha E. Durgin
- Subjects:
- City Hotel, New York
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