Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Our curators have highlighted 7 objects that are related to Plate, ca. 1753-1756.

Anatomical model of Ficus Carica glued to a vertical rod mounted on a stepped base with affixed paper label

Model, Ficus Carica, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.3

There are 3 images of this object.

A plate with a wavy, brown-edged rim, painted with a large spray of pink and white crinum (Crinum Zeylanicum), with scattered sprigs and insects.

Plate, 1753–1756
soft-paste porcelain, overglaze enamels.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-2

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A plate with a wavy, brown-edged rim, painted with a large flowering branch, a small sprig of blue morning glory, and insects.

Plate, 1753–1756
soft-paste porcelain, overglaze enamels.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-3

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Scalloped edge with green feather motif. Fluted cavetto. At center, a tropical bird.

Plate, 1753–1758
porcelain with overglaze enameling.
Gift of Forsyth Wickes.
1962-218-3

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

A plate with a wavy, brown-edged rim, painted with a large branch of convolvulus/bindweed (Ipomoea purpurea) and various insects.

Plate, 1753–1756
soft-paste porcelain, overglaze enamels.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-5

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A plate with a wavy, brown-edged rim, painted with a papaya (Carica papaya), two sprays of flowering millet grass, and several insects.

Plate (England), ca. 1753–56
soft-paste porcelain, overglaze enamels.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-6

This object was made by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Dark green and orange on an opaque ground, decorated with a high relief forest scene of thick trees with a spire and town roofs in the distance, beneath a bright orange sky; the vase widens as it rises until reaching a narrow neck just below the mouth.

Vase (France), ca. 1895
mold-blown, etched and carved glass, enamel fusions.
Gift of Harry C. Sigman.
2013-21-2

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.