Collection Highlights
Decanter and stopper
1823-1845
1936.696ab
Glass
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Plate
Object name
Plate
Date
ca. 1820
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
Overall: 1 x 10 in. ( 2.5 x 25.4 cm )
Description
Porcelain plate with dished rim; decorated with penciled sepia trellis diaper and butterfly border ("Fitzhugh style"); central roundel with spear and post border and alternating diaper and animal figure panels containing an "H" for Hone family.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Louise Starr
Object Number
1985.13
Marks
painted: at center of roundel: "H"
Gallery Label
This piece is part of a dinner service given as a wedding gift to John Hone II and Miss Marie Antoinette Kane (m. 1818). He was the nephew of Philip Hone (1780-1851), the prominent New York businessman, politican, and diarist.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
