Plate

• Artist: John Edwards (Retailer)
• Medium: Painted porcelain
• Geographical Locations:
  • Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Limoges, France
• Dates: ca. 1876
• Dimensions: 1 1/4 x 11 x 11 in. (3.2 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm)
• Markings: Over seal: "PORCELAINE DE TERRE / TRADE MARK"; below seal: "JOHN EDWARDS"; inscribed on back in china marker: "on River St. Lawrence / Brockville Block House / From a sketch made Augt 6. 1850 / J. M. Falconer pinxt (in Water Colors) Brooklyn L. I. / Decr 10 / 26th 1876"
• Signature: no signature
• Inscriptions: no inscriptions
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location: Brooklyn Museum, BMA, 5Q12-LUCE, Unit 36, Shelf H
• Accession Number: 66.27.3
• Image: 66.27.3_acetate_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 0,

Catalogue Description:
Porcelain dinner plate with yellow rim, plain blue border; white circular lines framing hand-painted polychrome scene consisting of square house on rocks, people in foreground, water in front of and back of house; other rocky islands in background. Blue skies, sun about to set. CONDITION: Good with extensive crackling.