Lion, from the El Dorado Carousel, Coney Island, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
These ceramics are decorated with American landscape scenes and were made in England for the American market. Before the 1840s, only the elite could afford dinnerware, then made of expensive porcelain. One of the early fruits of the Industrial Revolution was the production of inexpensive machine-molded and mechanically decorated earthenware for the middle class. These objects were decorated by the transfer technique, in which the scene is engraved on a metal plate, inked, printed on paper, and then pressed, or transferred, onto the ceramic body.
Caption
Hugo Haase German, 1857–1933. Lion, from the El Dorado Carousel, Coney Island, Brooklyn, ca. 1902. Zinc sheeting, Mounted: 82 x 36 x 69 in. (208.3 x 91.4 x 175.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Frederick Fried, 66.251.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 66.251.1_PS11.jpg)
Collection
Collection
Manufacturer
Title
Lion, from the El Dorado Carousel, Coney Island, Brooklyn
Date
ca. 1902
Geography
Place made: Leipzig, Germany, Place found: Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, New York, United States
Medium
Zinc sheeting
Classification
Dimensions
Mounted: 82 x 36 x 69 in. (208.3 x 91.4 x 175.3 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Frederick Fried
Accession Number
66.251.1
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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