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Dish

Manufacturer: Union Porcelain Works, 1863-ca.1922
Medium: Porcelain
Place Manufactured: Greenpoint (now Brooklyn), New York, USA
Dates: ca. 1885
Dimensions: 1 x 4 3/8 x 4 3/8 in. (2.5 x 11.1 x 11.1 cm)
Markings: Impressed on beer keg on front: "U.P.W." Printed on back: eagle head with branch in beak, above which "U.P.W." in green.
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 1994.3
Credit Line: H. Randolph Lever Fund
Image: Overall, 1994.3_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Dish, porcelain. Circular dish with flat bottom and slightly sloping sides. In bottom of dish is deeply molded figure of crowned, bearded figure holding a pretzel in one hand and a stein of beer in the other, sitting astride a keg on a trestle, representing the king of beer. Condition: Good.

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