Plate
- Title:
- The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.167
- Creator:
- Wood, Enoch
Ceramicist - Place of Origin:
- Staffordshire, England
- Date:
- 1828
- Description:
- Plate. Blue transfer printed earthenware. Circular body 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, encircled by narrow band and undulating line, shows landscape with locomotive tender, and 3 freight cars in foreground. Train in background at smaller scale. Border has groupings of shells. Band of C-scrolls at rim. Reverse surface undecorated. Printed mark on bottom: "THE BALTIMORE & OHIO / RAIL ROAD", with right-facing eagle, shield and banderole inscribed "E PLURIBUS UNUM" above. Impressed mark: "E.WOOD & SONS BURSLEM WARRANTED / SEMI CHINA", with spread eagle and shield, all within a circle.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware - Dimensions:
- H-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. Source of view: engraving of Hetton Railroad, England. Published in the American Traveller Broadside, Boston, 1826. Reproduced in Dunbar's History of Travel in America, vol. II, p. 725.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Martha E. Durgin
- Subjects:
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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