Plate
- Title:
- Cadmus
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.177
- Creator:
- Wood, Enoch
Ceramicist - Place of Origin:
- Burslem, England
- Date:
- 1825-1830
- Description:
- Plate. Blue transfer printed earthenware. Circular plate with upward curving rim which is shaped into eight, slightly rounded sections. Underglaze, transfer-printed design in deep blue. Central view on inner surface is a seascape with three-masted vessel in background, sloop in center and three male figures on shore in foreground. Border has groupings of asymmetrical shells with flowers and foliage between. Decorative band at rim. Outer surface undecorated. Impressed mark on bottom: E. WOOD & SONS BURSLE[M] WARRANT[ED] / SEMI CHINA", spread eagle in center. Also an unidentified blue mark on reverse, underglaze.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Dimensions:
- H-1.1 Dia-10.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Martha Durgin (b.1833) of Concord, NH. She probably began her collection in the late 1880s-early 1890s.
Listed in Larsen as "Cadmus" after the ship that brought Lafayette to America in 1824. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Martha E. Durgin
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