Collection Highlights
Ki On Twog Ky (also known as Cornplanter ), 1732/40-1836
1796
1867.314
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Plate
Object name
Plate
Date
1954
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
Overall: 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. ( 1.9 x 26.7 cm )
Description
Porcelain plate decorated with transfer printed images of historic synagogues with hand colored overglaze and two gold bands around rim.
Credit Line
Gift of the Sisterhood of the Spanish and Portugeuse Synagogue thorugh Mrs. Joseph Adlman
Object Number
1954.219d
Marks
printed: on obverse: "SHEARITH ISRAEL SYNANGOGUE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK/CENTRAL PARK WEST AT SEVENTIETH STREET"
printed: on reverse: " DECORATED/BY/DELANO STUDIOS/SETAUKET,L.I.,N.Y."; "ONE OF SEVEN COMMEMORATIVE PLATES ISSUED/BY THE SISTERHOOD OF THE SPANISH AND PORTUGEUSE/SYNAGOGUE IN HONOR OF THE CONGREGATION'S TERCENTRAY, 1654-1954. THE REV. DR. H. PEREIRA MENDES DEDIACTED THIS THE/ FIFTH SYNAGOGUE BUILDING IN 1897. THE COMMUNITY CENTER WAS/DEDICATED 1954 BY THE REV. DR. DAVID DESOLA POOL.DESCENDANTS/OF CONGREGATIONAL FOUNDERS ARE MEMBERS, AND SERVICES/HAVE CONTINUED UNCHANGED SINCE COLONIAL DAYS" AND "FIRST EDITION/Esther H.Oppenheim-ARTIST/HAND COLORED"
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