Plate

1750-1800

Earthenware

Overall: 1 3/4 in. × 9 3/8 in. (4.4 × 23.8 cm)

Gift of the Washington Headquarters Association, Daughters of the American Revolution

1947.540

This plate was formerly part of the Reginald Pelham Bolton collection of Colonial and Revolutionary War relics in the Morris-Jumel Mansion. It was found on the site of the Van Oblienis house near Fort Washington Avenue and 176th Street, in 1913.

DescriptionReassembled drape-molded redware plate with serrated rim and obverse with slip-trailed decoration of three stripes flanked by rows of wavy lines.

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