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A blue transfer print pearlware plate with a slightly scalloped edge. The central design depicts the dam and waterworks at Fair Mount and its outer border consists of flowers, eagles, and scrolls.
plates (dishes)
earthenware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
floral patterns
scrolls (motifs)
Dish, Eating
Plate, Food
Earthenware
Tin Glazed
Transfer Printed
Eagle
Scroll
Flower
Tree
Classical Figure
Dam
Plate, Food
One of many views related to the early United States and its history that appear in the online exhibit "Patriotic America."
Printed on bottom: Fair Mount/near/ Philadelphia. Impressed in bottom: [symbol] Paper label: Schuylkill River and Dam/Lemon Hill Mansion, residence of Henry Pratt Fairmount Park. (Joseph Stubbs)
Pratt, Henry
Dam, The
Waterworks, The
Subject Fair Mount,
1920.646 A
Fair Mount
Pratt, Henry
Dam, The
Waterworks, The
Stubbs, Joseph (Designer)
Dale Hall Works (Maker)
Burslem, England, Staffordshire
10 1/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Charles I. Thayer
1920.646
1820-1830 (After)
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