Plate, Butter
- Object Name:
- Plate, Butter
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.067
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Butter plate. Whiteware, earthenware. Small circular plate with plain rim and foot ring present. Entire obverse covered with blue black transfer print design. Scene depicts a very large building with portico, columns, and a dome on top, a river with house boats and a group of three people in the foreground. The people are interacting but it is unclear what they are doing, possibly reading a map. Clouds and mountains in background. Paper label with number "67" on front. Three small marks on reverse from kilm furniture. No maker's mark seen.
- Material:
- Ceramic
- Dimensions:
- H-0.5 Dia-3.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Ceramics collected by Martha E. Durgin (1833-1916) of Concord, NH. She began collecting in the late 1880s and donated the collection to the Society in 1914.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Martha E. Durgin
- People:
- Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916)
- Subjects:
- Boats
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