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1917

  • Work on this object began.

1937

  • Work on this object ended.

1989

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Plate with Scene of Woman Harvesting Wheat Plate

This is a plate. It was designed by Sofia Borisovna Pressman. It is dated ca. 1927 and we acquired it in 1989. Its medium is earthenware. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

It is credited The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase through the Decorative Arts Association Acquisition and Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program Funds.

Its dimensions are

Diameter: 33.5 cm (13 3/16 in.)

It has the following markings

On underside: "3410" incised in clay; unidentified painter's mark [?] hand-painted in green underlgaze

Cite this object as

Plate with Scene of Woman Harvesting Wheat Plate; Designed by Sofia Borisovna Pressman (1904); earthenware; Diameter: 33.5 cm (13 3/16 in.); The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase through the Decorative Arts Association Acquisition and Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program Funds; 1989-41-27

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