Collection Highlights
View of Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York
after 1883
1904.22
Black ink, white gouache, and graphite on photo-sensitive paper, laid on card
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Plate: Eugenia
Object name
Plate: Eugenia
Date
1904
Medium
Whiteware/Porcelain
Dimensions
Overall: 3/4 x 8 in. ( 1.9 x 20.3 cm )
Description
Molded whiteware plate; rimmed in gold and decorated with crossed flags (2) in blue with red cross and red with blue stripe and one white star with gold poles and inscriptions generally near rim.
Credit Line
Gift of Paul H. Downing
Object Number
1948.475h
Marks
painted: on front in gold: "EUGENIA"
printed: in red on base: "JAMES M. SHAW & Co./NEW YORK/1928/6"
printed: in green on base: "WARWICK" on curved rectangle with knight's helmet above, crossed swords
Gallery Label
This plate was part of the dinner service of the steam yacht "Eugenia" (Length:113 feet; Waterline: 91 feet, 6 inches), which was deisgned by W.G. Herreshoff and built by Herreshoff Co., in Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1904; the yacht was intended for John B. Herrshoff. The donor was the yacht's last owner.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
