Collection Highlights
Portrait of two girls
Date:
Object Number:
PR.012.1.326.Box12
Medium:
Ambrotype
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Luce Center
Meat carving platter
Object Number:
1985.14
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Porcelain
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 x 18 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. ( 7.6 x 47 x 39.4 cm )
Description:
Oval porcelain meat carving platter; decorated with penciled sepia trellis diaper and butterfly border ("Fitzhugh style"); central roundel with spear and post border and alternating diaper and animal figure panels containing an "H" for Hone family.
Gallery Label:
This piece is part of a dinner service given as a wedding gift to John Hone II and Miss Marie Antoinette Kane (m. 1818). He was the nephew of Philip Hone (1780-1851), the prominent New York businessman, politican, and diarist.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Louise Starr
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
