Plate

Title:

Sight Seeing

Object Name:

Plate

Object ID:

1990.032.04

Creator:

Moffat, Yard & Company

Place of Origin:

Dresden, Germany/New York, NY

Date:

1913

Description:

Plate. Calendar; advertising. White earthenware. Circular plate with plain rim. Base ring present. Obverse of plate completely decorated with transfer print, silk screen and handpainting. Central design includes the US Capital building with an African-American man, with white beard and white hair, gesturing toward the capital building. In the foreground is a Caucasian man and woman looking at each other. He wears a straw hat, coat and tie. She wears a feathered or flowered straw hat with dress and also wears a cameo and a bracelet. They are leaning over a bannister. The colors of the image include greens, blues, black, brown, white, grey, pink and orange. Rim decoration includes green silk screened pineapples as well as 12 calendar blocks with 1913 above the January calendar. The rim is edged with a single gold band. Signed in the lower left of the image: "Christy". Title below the image reads: "SIGHT SEEING / PERM. C'P'R'T. MOFFAT,YARD & CO. N.Y. 1908." Text below the image in sans-serif letters reads: "Compliments of / ERNEST CROSS. / The Men's Shop / PENACOOK, N. H.", in gold. Printed in green on reverse: "DRESDEN / CHINA".

Material:

Ceramic
Earthenware

Dimensions:

H-0.8 Dia-7.55 inches

Provenance:

1913 calendar plate with advertisement for The Men's Shop, Penacook, NH, shop of Ernest L. Cross (1885-1949), of Penacook, NH.

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase

People:

Cross, Ernest L. (1885-1949)

Subjects:

Advertising, Calendars, Capitol buildings, Ceramics, Earthenware, People, Pineapples, Plates, Sightseeing, Sightseers, Tourists, U.S. Capitol