Plate, Commemorative

Object Name:

Plate, Commemorative

Object ID:

2011.030

Place of Origin:

Etruria, England

Date:

circa 1925

Description:

Souvenir plate, Benning Wentworth Mansion, Portsmouth, NH. Transfer-printed earthenware, made by Wedgwood, England, c. 1925. White earthenware with blue transfer print. Image of three-story 18th-century house with conifer trees and lilac bushes in front. Border of flowers and grape leaves. Blue printed text on reverse: "GOVERNOR WENTWORTH MANSION. / PORTSMOUTH, N. H. / Built by Gov. Benning Wentworth in 1750. / In this house he married Martha Hilton / in 1755, and here he died in 1770. / Washington was entertained here in 1789. / MADE IN ENGLAND / FOR / OREN M. SHAW, / PORTSMOUTH, N.H. / WEDGWOOD / ETRURIA / ENGLAND". Printed blue circular mark: "SOLE IMPORTERS / JONES MCDUFFEE STRATTON Co. / BOSTON", with image of a lion. Also "A" printed in blue. Impressed marks: "WEDGWOOD", "X", and "J".

Material:

Ceramic

Earthenware - Transfer-printed

Dimensions:

H-0.7 Dia-9.25 inches

Provenance:

One of 11 plates that originally belonged to Rose (Mrs. Forest) Carll, aunt of donor, who lived on State Street in Portsmouth, 1940s.

Portsmouth jeweler Oren M. Shaw commissioned the production of this plate and other pictorial souvenir plates to sell to his customers. Imported by Jones, McDuffee Stratton Co. of Boston.

Credit Line:

Gift of Eleanor M. Poulin, in memory of Atty. and Mrs. Donald S. DiBuono

People:

Wentworth, Benning (1696-1770), Shaw, Oren M. (1886-1955)

Subjects:

Wentworth Mansion, Flowers, Grape leaves