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Buffet Plate from Four-Piece Setting,
Accession # 85.158.8
Designer Gwathmey Siegel
Manufacturer Swid Powell
Title Buffet Plate from Four-Piece Setting, "Tuxedo"
Date ca. 1985
Medium Porcelain
Dimensions 1 1/8 x 12 x 12 in. (2.9 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Marks On underside, printed in black: '© Swid Powell / Gwathmey Siegel [facsimile signature in script] "Tuxedo" '
Inscriptions no inscriptions
Signed no signature
Credit Line Gift of Paul F. Walter
Location Visible Storage: Case 18, Shelf E (Contemporary Design)
Description "Tuxedo" pattern. Circular buffet plate with wide rim in white porcelain with vitreous glaze and transfer-printed decorations. Edge of rim has border of small black rectangles; a black square appears in each quadrant of the rim; a black band outlines the slope of the dish of the plate, but is broken under the four squares on the rim. The center of the plate has four black squares arranged in square pattern. Part of four-piece place setting (85.158.8-10a-b). CONDITION: Undamaged.