Platter

1835-1860

Measurements

1 in x 9-5/8 in x 7-1/2 in

Materials

Glazed and enameled white earthenware

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.

Accession Number

1971.1500

Inscription

A maker's mark of an eagle in flight is impressed into the underside of the bottom.

Condition Notes

A stress crack along the booge intersects with another in the rim.  The platter is lightly stained overall.

Provenance

Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner

Comments

This handsome and boldly decorated small oval platter exhibits broad, monochromatic leaves and floral petals tied together by thin stems.  

Research has not identified the impressed mark on the underside.