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Food Cover

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1830-1840

GUSN

GUSN-15608

Description

White body with lobed rim; dark brown printed image of supplicant, chained slave near palm tree (taken from emblem of English Society for the Abolition of Slave Trade. Domed with "rope" border in relief.

Details

Descriptive Terms

covers (overlying objects)
cookware
transfer printing
porcelain
emancipation
slavery
Cover, Food
Cover, Food

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

6 1/2 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Alice and Emil Ahlborn

Accession Number

1961.168C

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