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Dinner Plate

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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1924-1956

GUSN

GUSN-64049

Description

Circular dinner plate with moderate rim, slightly dished. White clay body with colorless gaze. Under glaze green transfer printed decoration in Japanesque diaper overall with random hand-painted over glaze decoration of large cherry fruit

Details

Descriptive Terms

dinner plates
cherry (wood)
earthenware
transfer printing
cherry (wood)
Orientalism
Dish, Eating
Plate, Food
Plate, Dinner
Earthenware
Transfer Printed
Cherry
Orientalism
Plate, Dinner

Inscription

H+K/ England; Holkirkware/(unicorn) H+K/T (printed)

Associated Building

Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),

Maker

Hollinshead & Kirkham, Ltd. (Maker)

Location of Origin

England, STAFFORDSHIRE

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Carson Holt

Accession Number

1970.785.1

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