Platter with a View of Lake George, New York Yale University Art Gallery

1820–46

The source for the view on this platter is uncertain. However, an engraving by the New York artist Peter Maverick, which appeared in Theodore Dwight Jr.’s 1825 guidebook, The Northern Traveller, depicts sloping mountains very similar to those in the background of this scene. In the early nineteenth century, Lake George was famous for its beautiful scenery and exceptionally clear waters, in which, according to Dwight, "a fish or a stone may be seen at the depth of 20 or 30 feet." The transfer-printed shell border was one of Enoch Wood and Sons’ stock designs and was their most frequently used border.

Medium: Blue, transfer-printed earthenware
Dimensions: 16 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (41.9 × 31.8 cm)
diameter: 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1934.283
Geography: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Culture: British
Period: 19th century
Classification: Containers
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Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

platters

Subject

boulders, lake, men, mountains, sailboats, seashell, steamers (steamships), tree

Marks

Impressed: encircular E WOOD & SONS, BURSLEM, top, WARRANTED bottom. Inter-circle SEMI CHINA over spladed eagle with arrows.
The number 16.

Inscriptions

Printed: In scroll E PLURIBUS UNUM, over eagle with olive branch and arrows and shield with stars and stripes. In rectangle: LAKE GEORGE / STATE OF NEW YORK.

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