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Soup Plate
- Maker: Willets
- Medium: Glazed porcelain
- Place Manufactured: Trenton, New Jersey, USA
- Dates: ca. 1882
- Dimensions: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)
- Markings: printed in brown on back: TROPICS / WILLETS . Impressed on bottom OPAQUE / (Willets monogram) / PORCELAIN
- Signature: Unsigned
- Inscriptions: no inscriptons
- Collections: Decorative Arts
- Museum Location:
This item is not on view - Accession Number: 87.222
- Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Barry R. Harwood
- Catalogue Description: Circular dished plate with wide rim; opaque porcelain. White ground, brown transfer printed decoration, gold rim. Decoration is complex, in the Japanese taste; upper portion is a scene of bamboo, branches and herons. Lower third is dense compartmentalized patterns of bamboo, diaper, flowers, birds and leaves with an arched reserve of a rural scene. Pattern Tropics. CONDITION: Good, some crazing to glaze.
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum