Plate

Title:

Shannondale Springs Virginia U.S.

Object Name:

Plate

Object ID:

1914.014.222

Creator:

William Adams & Sons; Burton, Charles

Place of Origin:

Staffordshire, England

Date:

1830-1850

Description:

Plate. Pearlware or white earthenware. Circular plate with upward curving rim and scalloped edge. Foot ring present. Underglaze, transfer-printed design in red. Central scene on inner surface is encircled by a decorative band and shows a rural scene with three men seated in foreground by large tree, one fishing in lake. Wide border on rim consisting of baskets of flowers alternating with "fan-shaped medallions." Also included on border are decorative scrolls against a stipple 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: two cornucopia, joined at bottom, filled with fruit and flowers, outspread eagle over top, "SHANNONDAL[E] / SPRINGS VIRGINIA / U..S." in center. Impressed mark hard to read: "[ADAMS]".

Material:

Ceramic

Dimensions:

H-0.9 Dia-8 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 Charles Burton of NY, engraved and printed by Fenner, Sears & Co. Published by I. J. Hinton & Simplin and Marshall.

Credit Line:

Gift of Martha E. Durgin

People:

Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916), Adams, William, Burton, Charles

Subjects:

Shannondale Springs, Virginia, Men, Trees, Fishing, Flowers, Cornucopias