Plate

Title:

Head Waters of the Juniata U.S.

Object Name:

Plate

Object ID:

1914.014.221

Creator:

William Adams & Sons; Cole, Thomas (1801-1848)Artist

Place of Origin:

Tunstall, Staffordshire, England

Date:

circa 1831

Description:

Soup Plate. Pink transfer printed earthenware. Pearlware. Circular plate with very deep cavetto upward curving rim and scalloped edge. Underglaze, transfer-printed design in pink. Central scene on inner surface is encircled by a decorative band and show scene in Pennsylvania mountains with man crossing stream on rustic bridge, which is supported midstream by a boulder. Wide border on rim consisting of baskets of flowers alternating with "fan-shaped medallions." Also included in border are decorative scrolls against a stippled ground and floral swags. Narrow band of contiguous circles near edge, repeating scalloped outline, but leaving white margin. Outer surface undecorated. Printed mark on bottom: "HEAD WATERS / OF THE JUNIATA / U. S."

Material:

Ceramic

Earthenware - Pearl ware

Dimensions:

H-1.6 Dia-10.5 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: Drawing by Thomas Cole, engraved and printed by Fenner, Sears & Co. Published 1831 by I. J. Hinton & Simpkins & Marshall.

Credit Line:

Gift of Martha E. Durgin

People:

Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916), Adams, William, Cole, Thomas (1801-1848)

Subjects:

Juniata River, Mountains, Men, Stream fords, Bridge, Boulders, Flower arrangements