Collection Highlights
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
Date:
1924
Object Number:
1952.45
Medium:
Patinated plaster on a wooden base
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Ashtray shaped like an artist's palette
Object Number:
1955.241
Date:
ca. 1930-1955
Medium:
Porcelain
Dimensions:
Overall: 5/8 x 5 3/8 x 4 3/4 x 5 in. ( 1.6 x 13.7 x 12.1 x 12.7 cm )
Marks:
printed: in black on back: "Made in Germany"
printed: in black on front and on bottom view: "Mt. Clay and Jacob's Ladder"
Description:
Molded ashtray shaped like an artist's palette with black transfer printed view of two steam engines and train cars on suspended tracks travelling across a landscape; the transfer print is filled in with hand painted overglaze in brown, blue-green, yellow, and other colors; there are traces of gold luster around part of the rim.
Gallery Label:
This dish is part of the Hotel Dauphin Collection of railroad china and dining car plates; this is possibly a souvenir ashtray.
Credit Line:
Gift of Ms. Dora Whitman Flukiger
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
