Crown Ducal (A G Richardson and Co Ltd), Dinner Plate: Landing of the Pilgrims, from the series Colonial Times, 1930-1940, ca.
glazed earthenware, 10 3/8 x 10 3/8 x 3/4 in.
Ceramic transferware dinner plate; ivory with blue color printed pattern, circular, scalloped rim with circular well; rim with diamond and foliate printed pattern and vignettes, each depicting Indigenous Americans and pilgrim imagery: Pocahontas Saving Life of John Smith; American Indian; Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor; Return of the Mayflower. Central image depicts The Landing of the Pilgrims aka Plymouth Rock, 1620 (c1869) Rothermel, Peter Frederick, 1812-1895, artist; Andrews, Joseph, 1806-1873, engraver. Reverse image depicts Pilgrim Exiles.
2019.19.04
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Acquired for exhibition: A Band of Exiles on the Wild New England Shore; The Place of Peter Frederick Rothermel's The Landing of the Pilgrims in America's National Memory
March-May 2014
Source Institute: UNKNOWN
Credit Line: Lafayette College Art Collection, Easton, PA