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Plate

Date1820-1846

Maker Enoch Wood & Sons

OriginEngland, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem

MediumEarthenware, lead-glazed

DimensionsOverall: 16.5cm (6 1/2in.)

Credit LineGift of Anne Genter

Object number2015-185

DescriptionBlue transfer-printed china glaze plate with an image of Mount Vernon in the center and a border of shells around the rim. The shell border was one of Enoch Wood and Sons most common stock designs. The view of Mount Vernon derives from an 1800 engraving by Francis Jukes after a drawing by Alexander Robertson.
MarkingsOn the reverse the plate is marked with an impressed "Wood" and an additional transfer-printed mark "E. Wood & Sons" above an eagle and a banner beneath that, which incorrectly labels the image "The Capitol, Washington."
ProvenanceEx. Coll: Anne Genter