Plate, Soup
- Title:
- W Penns Treaty
- Object Name:
- Plate, Soup
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.220
- Creator:
- Green, Thomas
Ceramicist - Place of Origin:
- Staffordshire, England
- Date:
- 1847-1859
- Description:
- Soup Plate. Pearlware; earthenware. Circular plate with upward curving rim, scalloped edge, and base-ring present. Underglaze, transfer-printed design in brown. Central scene on inner surface shows four standing figures in foreground; two Europeans at right and two Indians at left. Several Indians in background seated before tent. Seemingly tropical setting. Wide geometric border with several concentric bands; each with a different design. Reverse surface undecorated. Printed mark on bottom: "W PENNS TREATY / TG" on scroll, towers of two buildings are above the scroll, ferns surround it. Paper label on front, "220".
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware - Dimensions:
- H-1.25 Dia-10.75 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Martha Durgin (b.1833) of Concord, NH. She probably began her collection in the late 1880s-early 1890s. This piece is marked T.G., for Thomas Green, whose Staffordshire District pottery flourished form 1847-1859. Thomas Green's shop was especially known for exported transfer-prints in many colors in addition to blue, and was especially known for his series, "W. Penn's Treaty."
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Martha E. Durgin
- Subjects:
- Indian man, Indians of North America, Treaties
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