Enoch Wood & Sons (active 1818–1846). <em>Soup Plate, "Pine Orchard House, Catskill Mountains,"</em> ca. 1835. Earthenware, blue underglaze, 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (26 x 26 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. William C. Esty, 60.213.186. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 60.213.186_bw.jpg)

Enoch Wood & Sons (active 1818–1846). Soup Plate, "Pine Orchard House, Catskill Mountains," ca. 1835. Earthenware, blue underglaze, 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (26 x 26 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. William C. Esty, 60.213.186. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 60.213.186_bw.jpg)

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These are what is called transferware. Rather than being hand painted, which was traditionally very expensive and labor-intensive work, these designs were transferred from metal plates, a process derived from printed book illustrations. In fact, many of the decorations would be copied from images in published books.

Soup Plate, "Pine Orchard House, Catskill Mountains"

Decorative Arts and Design

These ceramics are decorated with American landscape scenes and were made in England for the American market. Before the 1840s, only the elite could afford dinnerware, then made of expensive porcelain. One of the early fruits of the Industrial Revolution was the production of inexpensive machine-molded and mechanically decorated earthenware for the middle class. These objects were decorated by the transfer technique, in which the scene is engraved on a metal plate, inked, printed on paper, and then pressed, or transferred, onto the ceramic body.

MAKER Enoch Wood & Sons, active 1818–1846

MEDIUM Earthenware, blue underglaze

Place Manufactured: Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem, Staffordshire, England

DATES ca. 1835

DIMENSIONS 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (26 x 26 cm) (show scale)

MARKINGS On bottom of plate: impressed "E. Wood and Son Burslem, Warranted" around an eagle with "Semi-China" above. Also, blue-printed eagle with scroll in mouth reading "E Pluribus Unum"; shield at eagle's feet with clouds and "Pine Orchard House, Catskill Mountains"

SIGNATURE no signature

INSCRIPTIONS no inscriptions

COLLECTIONS Decorative Arts and Design

ACCESSION NUMBER 60.213.186

CREDIT LINE Gift of Mrs. William C. Esty

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Earthenware soup plate, round with slightly scalloped rim and blue under glaze transfer-printed decoration. Border: six groups of shells with seaweed foliage. View in center: landscape scene with Pine Orchard House in the Catskill Mountains up on a hill, man walking and another man on horseback on road, thicket of trees, large building on hillside, mountain behind, sky.. Source of view: painting by Thomas Cole (1801-1848). Condition: Good

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CAPTION Enoch Wood & Sons (active 1818–1846). Soup Plate, "Pine Orchard House, Catskill Mountains," ca. 1835. Earthenware, blue underglaze, 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (26 x 26 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. William C. Esty, 60.213.186. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 60.213.186_bw.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 60.213.186_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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RIGHTS STATEMENT Creative Commons-BY

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