Collection Highlights
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
ca. 1941
1987.16
Plaster with purplish red-brown stipple finish
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Cup and saucer
Object name
Cup and saucer
Date
1827-1831
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 2 1/2 x 4 in. ( 6.4 x 10.2 cm )
Description
Pearlware cup and saucer molded of white clay with flared sides and round foot transfer-printed in red with wide border around exterior with cartouches with view of city beyond water with ships, couple in foreground repeated in bowl's center with wide interior border with cartouche of ship and male figure.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number
1942.411ab
Marks
printed: on saucer base on swag in eagles beak: "NEW YORK"
impressed: on saucer base: "ADAMS"
Gallery Label
The scenes on this plate and saucer are of New York City and of the New York City Harbor.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.