Artist/Maker
Enoch Wood & Sons
(active 1818-1846)
Highlands, Hudson River platter
ca. 1820-1846
Place madeEngland, Europe
Transfer-printed earthenware
Overall: 1 × 9 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (2.5 × 23.5 × 19.1 cm)
The Dr. Arthur H. Merritt Collection
1961.292
After the Revolutionary War, Staffordshire potteries in England manufactured a variety of transfer-printed wares that catered to American tastes. Scenes of Revolutionary War heroes, historic events, notable buildings, and the American landscape proved popular with American consumers. In the foreground of this view is the three-masted Hudson River steamer, "Chancellor Livingston," built by Robert Fulton in 1816.
DescriptionMolded pearlware platter with dark blue transfer print of Highlands, Hudson River; oval with pierced border; shell edge, central image of river scene with steamships in foreground and hills in distance.Markingsprinted: on adhesive label on underside of platter: "253" [collector's label]
typed: on torn label on underside of platter: "Highla.../No. 399..../Rare in.../See Halsey.../Old China,..."
ProvenanceThe Dr. Arthur H. Merritt Collection of Anglo-American Historical StaffordshireClassificationsCERAMICS
Enoch Wood & Sons
ca. 1820-1846
1961.338ab
