Fish Plate, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Dinner Service

1880

Porcelain with overglaze and gilt decoration

Diam. 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm)

Gift of Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch, LL.B. 1958, and in honor of Patricia E. Kane, Ph.D. 1987

2022.75.7.12

Geography:

Manufactured in France

Designed in Asbury Park, New Jersey

Status:

Not on view

Culture:

American

Period:

19th century

Classification:

Containers - Ceramics

Provenance:

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, date unknown, lot 709 [note 1]; sold to Mrs. Meyer Tenenbaum (née Labelle Birnbaum, 1915–2001), Savannah, Ga.; given to her daughter Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch, New York (on loan as a promised gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2015–22); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2022

Note 1. The plate is part of a set including 12 other objects given to the Gallery; one plate in the set retains a Sotheby Parke Bernet tag inscribed "709 / 13."

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