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Dessert Plate

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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1906-1927

GUSN

GUSN-265766

Description

Porcelain Dessert plate with wide acid-etched gilded interior rim with an Italianate contentionalized leaf and scroll pattern centering ivory interior.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dessert plates
porcelain
gold (metal)
etching (corroding)
gilding
Italianate (North American architecture styles )
leaf scrolls
Porcelain
Plate, Dessert

Inscription

"Haviland/ France" (stamped)
"O.N. Fitts." (in gold)

Associated Person

Fitts, Onata North, 1871-1946

Maker

Haviland & Co.

Dimensions

15/16 (H), 7 9/16 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Barbara Smith Barnett

Accession Number

2002.49.1

Places

Possibly Brookline (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Possibly Newton (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts (United States)
Limoges (Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France)

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