Plate (Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)

Artist:Enoch Wood & Sons

Medium: Earthenware

Geograhical Locations:

• Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem, Staffordshire, England

Dates:ca. 1840

Dimensions: 10 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (25.7 x 25.7 cm)

Collections:

• Decorative Arts and Design

Exhibitions:

• American Identities: A New Look

Accession Number: 12.900.24

Catalogue Description:
Plate, earthenware, round, slightly scalloped shape with blue under glaze transfer-printed decoration. Border: six groups of shells with seaweed and foliage. View: "Baltimore and Ohio Railroad," locomotive train with man riding on side, middle distance has another train, and houses in background with mountains behind. Source of view: published in "The American Travelling Broadside" (Boston, 1826). Condition: Large mark from kiln-stand at upper left border. Darker glaze in all the "joints" on back.

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