Collections: Decorative Arts: Plate (New York World's Fair)

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Plate (New York World's Fair)

• Designer: Charles Murphy
• Manufacturer: Homer Laughlin Company, ca. 1868-present
• Medium: Glazed earthenware
• Place Manufactured: Newell, West Virginia, USA
• Dates: ca. 1939
• Dimensions: 3/4 x 10 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (1.9 x 25.7 x 25.7 cm)
• Markings: On reverse, underglaze green: (monogram logo) "HLCC / HOMER LAUGHLIN / MADE IN USA". Gilded, printed in convex semi-circle: "DECORATION BY CHARLES MURPHY / 150th ANNIVERSARY / INNAUGURATION / [horizontal] OF / GEORGE WASHINGTON / -AS- / FIRST PRESIDENT / OF THE UNITED STATES / [concave semi-circle] 1789-1939"
• Collections: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
• Accession Number: 1994.165.75
• Credit Line: Gift of Paul F. Walter
• Image: Overall, 1994.165.75.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2005
Charles Murphy. Plate (New York World's Fair), ca. 1939. Glazed earthenware, 3/4 x 10 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (1.9 x 25.7 x 25.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1994.165.75 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1994.165.75.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: Plate. Glazed cream-colored earthenware, polychrome printed decoration. 1939 New York World's Fair souvenir. Metallic brown edging around rim. Multi-colored printed decoration to rim is divided into five segments by fair symbols, Trylon and Perisphere, with out curving rays from top. Five exhibition halls from fair are depicted within. Clockwise from top: Federal Government Building; Marine Transportation Building; Hall of Communications; Food Exhibitors Building; and the Building of Contemporary Arts. Background of rim decoration is predominantly purple with beams of lighter purple running through. Center of plate has purple Trylon and Perisphere on darker purple circular background. "1939" above Perisphere. Tip and base of Trylon bisect encircling purple on lighter purple inscription: "NEW [inverted triangle] YORK [inverted triangle] WORLDS [inverted triangle] FAIR [inverted triangle]". Condition: Good; gummy residue to rim and back; minor scratches to back.