Collection Highlights
Shrewsbury River, New Jersey
Date:
1859
Object Number:
S-229
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Plate: Canadian Pacific
Object Number:
1955.180
Date:
ca. 1930-1855
Medium:
Whiteware
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 10 in. ( 2.5 x 25.4 cm )
Marks:
printed: on reverse: "VITRIFIED" and "RIDGWAYS/SHELTON ENGLAND/ESTD 1792" (beneath crown) and "REG. NO 745624"
printed: on obverse: "CANADIAN PACIFIC"
typed: paper label on reverse: identifies railroad
Description:
Whiteware plate with geometric red, yellow, and blue border with green key wheat and holly motifs.
Gallery Label:
This plate is part of the Hotel Dauphin Collection of railroad china and dining car plates.
Credit Line:
Gift of Ms. Dora Whitman Fluekiger in memory of Florence Elsworth Wilson (Mrs. R. Thornton Wilson)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
