Plate
- Title:
- Nahant Hotel near Boston
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.166
- Creator:
- Stevenson, Ralph; Williams, Aldborough; Penniman, J. R.
- 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, pearlware. Central scene on inner surface shows the Nahant Hotel near Boston, built 1820, burned 1861. Acorn and oak leaf border on beaded ground. Decorative bands at edge and encircling scene. Reverse undecorated. Printed mark on bottom: "NAHANT HOTEL / N[E or R]. BOSTON" and an incised mark looks like a flower with six petals.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware - Dimensions:
- H-1 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: drawing by J. R. Penniman, published in Snow's History of Boston, 1825. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Martha E. Durgin
- Subjects:
- Nahant Hotel
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