Plate

Object Name:

Plate

Object ID:

1914.014.252

Place of Origin:

England

Date:

1840-1860

Description:

Child's Plate. Pearlware or ironstone earthenware with molded transfer print and hand painted decoration. Circular plate with plain rim. Base ring present. Rim has raised lettering of the alphabet A through Z in upper case Roman letters. Brown underglaze transfer print in center of plate depicting a boy and two girls dancing and another boy playing a flute. The girls are dressed in dresses with sashes and leggings that criss-cross their ankles. The boys are dressed in pants and jackets. The background scene depicts a meetinghouse, a large tree and some additional houses and sailboats. Below the scene in upper case Roman letters is: "HIGHLAND DANCE". A few items are hand painted over glaze including th tree, grass and bushes in green, the girls' skirts in green and red, the boys' pants and edging of the meetinghouse in black and the children's shoes and the flute in yellow. No maker's marks seen. Remnants of pink handwritten text on the reverse is illegible.

Material:

Ceramic
Earthenware

Dimensions:

H-0.9 Dia-7.3 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

People:

Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916)