Collection Highlights
The Peale Family
1773-1809
1867.298
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Dinner and soup plates
Object name
Dinner and soup plates
Date
ca. 1882
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
Part (dinner plate): 9 1/4 x 1 in. (23.5 x 2.5 cm)
Part (soup plate): 9 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (23.2 x 4.4 cm)
Description
Porcelain dinner and soup plate with scalloped rims each with royal Hawaiian crest at center; dinner plate has half-inch band of blue enamel edged in gilding around rim; soup plate has similar design with green enamel.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. James Hazen Hyde
Object Number
1948.562ab
Marks
marked: in white in white oval on reverse: "MEDAILLES D'OR/1867-1878/CHs PILLIVUYT & Co./PARIS"; in banner which is part of medallion at center of each plate "UA MAU KE EA OKA AINA I KA PONO"
Gallery Label
This plate was made for use in the State Dining Room of Iolani Palace; the medallion is coat of arms of King Kamehameha of Hawaii and inscription is his motto (tr. "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness")
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
