Plate, Cup

Title:

Staughton's Church

Object Name:

Plate, Cup

Object ID:

1914.014.073

Creator:

Stevenson & WilliamsManufacturer; Bowen, Abel (1790-1850)

Place of Origin:

Cobridge, Staffordshire, England

Date:

1829-1832

Description:

Cup Plate. Blue transfer-printed earthenware; circular plate with upward curving rim and slightly scalloped edge (white), with molded decoration. Underglaze, transfer-printed design in deep blue. Central scene on inner surface shows Boston's New South (or Octagon) Church (built 1814) in foreground with fences to right and left and three hitching posts in right foreground. Background shows trees at left and home of Nathaniel Goddard at right. Acorn and oak leaf border on beaded ground. Decorative bands at inner and outer edges of border. Outer surface undecorated. Printed mark on bottom: "Staughton's Church/R.S./Philadelphia." According to Larsen, p. 125, this view of the Octagon Church was sometimes mismarked in this manner. Illegible impressed mark. Source of view: drawing by Abel Bowen, engraved and published by the artist in his own book, PICTURE OF BOSTON, 1829.

Material:

Ceramic
Earthenware - Transfer-printed

Dimensions:

H-0.6 Dia-4.1 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), Stevenson, Ralph, Williams, Aldborough, Bowen, Abel (1790-1850)

Subjects:

Churches