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Buffet Plate, "Sunshine" Pattern

Designer: Stanley Tigerman
Manufacturer: Swid Powell
Medium: Porcelain
Place Manufactured: New York, New York, USA
Dates: ca. 1985
Dimensions: 1 x 12 1/8 x 12 1/8 in. (2.5 x 30.8 x 30.8 cm)
Markings: On underside, printed in light blue: ' © Swid Powell / Stanley Tigerman [facsimile signature in script] / "Sunshine" '
Signature: no signature
Inscriptions: no inscriptions
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 85.158.18
Credit Line: Gift of Paul F. Walter
Image: Overall, 85.158.18_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: "Sunshine" pattern. Circular plate with wide rim in white porcelain with vitreous glaze and transfer-printed decoration. Rim is decorated with orange triangles like stylized rays of the sun; between these triangles are areas of blue (sky) and white (clouds). In two places the blue spills onto the plate. In one area of clouds on the rim is a comic cherub in pink outline. CONDITION: Undamaged.

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