Dinner Plate with Kipling Quote, 1 of 12
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Porcelain
DATES
copyright 1910
DIMENSIONS
height: 1 1/6 in. (2.7 cm)
diameter: 10 15/16 in. (27.8 cm)
MARKINGS
underglaze in blue: "DESIGNED & COPYRIGHTED / by / MARY BACON JONES / Wm GUERIN & Co. / FRANCE / LIMOGES"
underglaze in green: "LIMOGES / W.G. / & Co. ? FRANCE' Between Scroll
SIGNATURE
no signature
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
ACCESSION NUMBER
1990.145.18
CREDIT LINE
Bequest of DeLancey Thorn Grant in memory of her mother, Louise Floyd-Jones Thorn
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Dinner Plate, Porcelain. White body. Cream ground. Brown border to rim edge. Band of six spaced paired green and brown rosettes with winged insects superimposed. Inner rim with inscription bordered by green and brown bands: "NOTHING - WAS - EVER - LOST - BY - SILENCE - AND - THOU - HAST - ALL - THE - LONG - NIGHT - FOR - THE - HUNTING". Large central medallion with outer band of paired brown heraldic animals alternating with green and brown leaf motif topped by squatting small figure, flanked by two running animals with long tails.
One of a set of twelve dinner plates, all different, with quotes from R. Kipling; see 1990.145.16 - .27
CONDITION - Very good original condition.
MUSEUM LOCATION
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