Plate
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
RETAILER
John Edwards
MEDIUM
Painted porcelain
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS
- Place manufactured: Limoges, France
- Place designed: Brooklyn, New York, United States
DATES
ca. 1876
DIMENSIONS
1 1/4 x 11 x 11 in. (3.2 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
Over seal: "PORCELAINE DE TERRE / TRADE MARK"; below seal: "JOHN EDWARDS"; inscribed on back in china marker: "on River St. Lawrence / Brockville Block House / From a sketch made Augt 6. 1850 / J. M. Falconer pinxt (in Water Colors) Brooklyn L. I. / Decr 10 / 26th 1876"
SIGNATURE
no signature
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
66.27.3
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Queens Borough Public Library
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Porcelain dinner plate with yellow rim, plain blue border; white circular lines framing hand-painted polychrome scene consisting of square house on rocks, people in foreground, water in front of and back of house; other rocky islands in background. Blue skies, sun about to set.
CONDITION: Good with extensive crackling.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
CAPTION
John Edwards. Plate, ca. 1876. Painted porcelain, 1 1/4 x 11 x 11 in. (3.2 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Queens Borough Public Library, 66.27.3. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 66.27.3_acetate_bw.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 66.27.3_acetate_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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