Collection Highlights
Tontine Coffee House, N.Y.C.
ca. 1797
1907.32
oil on linen, lined to fiberglass
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Fish platter
Object name
Fish platter
Date
1870-1890
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
Overall: 2 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 10 in. ( 6.4 x 59.7 x 25.4 cm )
Description
Porcelain fish platter of elongated rectangular shape; scalloped edge with gilding; central portion and parts of rim hand-painted in polychrome enamels with sea flora and fauna, including starfish, seaweed, shells, and fish. Factory mark, decorator's mark and Latin inscription on underside of platter.
Credit Line
Gift of Ione Sutton, 1995
Object Number
1996.1a
Marks
printed: in green on underside: "H & Co./L"
painted: in red on underside: "CRB" [decorator's mark]
written: in black enamel on underside: "Sphaenococcus Coronopifolius"
Gallery Label
This platter, part of a porcelain fish set, was a wedding present to New Yorker George W. Sutton, Jr. and Bostonian Margaret Bates Shaw, who were married in 1886. Each piece is hand-painted with different varieties of sea flora and fauna. The Suttons lived in Harlem at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 135th Street and moved to New Rochelle by 1899. Their cousin, Effingham Sutton, was responsible for developing Sutton Place about 1875.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
