Plate
- Title:
- The Common Soldiers Monument & First Baptist Church, Newport, N.H.
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1994.006.09
- Place of Origin:
- Germany
- Date:
- 1890 - 1920
- Description:
- Plate, porcelain. Plain circular rim. Stencil or silk screen rim design (blue & gold vine motif) with central transfer print done in green, blue, orange. Transfer print depicts village and park, with monuments. Transfer print titled, "The Common - Soldiers Monument / & First Baptist Church, Newport, N.H." Make's mark printed on base reverse, overglaze red within two circles, "MADE IN GERMANY". Foot ring present; hanger hole present in foot ring (though filled with glaze).
- Material:
- Ceramic
Porcelain - Dimensions:
- H-1.1 Dia-8 inches
- Provenance:
- Jane Chworowsky (1929-1993), was born in PA, and raised in Newport, NH. She attended Plymouth State College, and briefly taught English in Charlestown, NH (1953-55). She ran an antiques business -- Jane's Cabin Antiques -- at her home in Croydon, NH. She bequeathed the contents of her home and business to NHHS. The Chworowsky estate included Hampshire Pottery pieces, as well as many other NH and non-NH collectibles.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Jane Lee Chworowsky
- People:
- Chworowsky, Jane (1929-1993)
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