Dinner Plate with Kipling Quote, 1 of 12

Artist:Mary Bacon JonesWilliam Guerin

Medium: Porcelain

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Dates:copyright 1910

Dimensions: height: 1 in. (2.54 cm) diameter: 10 13/16 in. (27.5 cm)

Collections:

Accession Number: 1990.145.19

Catalogue Description:
Dinner plate, Porcelain. White body. Cream ground. Gray border at rim edge. Inner rim with band of repeated feather or leaf motif in light-pink, gray and mauve. Inscription on inner rim with pink and light-blue bands above and below: "THAT - IS - THE - NOISE - OF - THE - SPRING - A - VIBRATING - BOOM - WHICH - IS - NEITHER - BEES - NOR - FALLING - WATER - NOR - THE - WIND - IN - THE - TREE - TOPS - BUT - THE - PURRING - OF - THE - WARN (sic) - HAPPY - WORLD". Center of plate with opposed light-blue and pink peacocks with recumbent nude below, against a mandoria of abstracted tail feathers. 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.

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