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Platter (Eureka / Gold Rush)

Culture: American
Maker: M'Kee Brothers
Medium: Glass
Place Manufactured: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Dates: 1849
Dimensions: 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. (28.6 x 22.5 cm)
Inscriptions: On diagonal banner across center, molded: "EUREKA"
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 40.258
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. William Greig Walker by subscription
Image: Overall, 40.258_acetate_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Oval colorless pressed glass platter. In center, diagonal banner inscribed "EUREKA" against a mottled ground ringed by hatched pattern. Moving out from this ring into the rim are a plain ring, a ring with a pebbled ground interspersed with angled plain bands, and a ring that repeats the hatched pattern.

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