Plate, "Natural Bridge, Virginia"
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.
MEDIUM
Earthenware
DATES
ca. 1840
DIMENSIONS
9 3/16 x 9 3/16 in. (23.3 x 23.3 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
Base printed with spray of flowers and foliage and the legend: "NATURAL BRIDGE / VIRGINIA / E W & S / CELTIC CHINA"; also black numeral "10"
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
72.184.11
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mrs. Ben P. Grant in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Fleming Payne
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Earthenware plate, gray and white transfer-printed. In center, scene of the Natural Bridge, Virginia, within a border of fruit and flowers around rim.
Condition: Good.
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Enoch Wood & Sons (active 1818–1846). Plate, "Natural Bridge, Virginia," ca. 1840. Earthenware, 9 3/16 x 9 3/16 in. (23.3 x 23.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Ben P. Grant in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Fleming Payne, 72.184.11. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 72.184.11_bw.jpg)
IMAGE
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