Sample plate
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Circular, slightly concave plate with 12 pie-wedge sections of various colors in light and dark hues; names of colors in French around rim, above each wedge (starting at top going clockwise): "ROSE, VERT-BLEU, VERT CHRÓME, NOIR, VIOLET DE FER, ROUGE CAPUCINE, ROUGE CHAIR, JAUNE D'ARGENT, BRUN 108, BRUN BITUME, BLEU, POURPRE"; wide circular band of tan glaze overlaps wedges, creating sections of tinted colors; in center of plate, overlapping initials "R[backwards]EC" in tan glaze. Plate mounted in hanger of three metal straps and wire.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund
- ca. 1920s
- Accession Number
- 2003-5-5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Sample plate
- Medium
- Glazed earthenware
- Dimensions
- H x diam.: 3.5 x 42.5 cm (1 3/8 x 16 3/4 in.)
- possibly made in
- Chantilly, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2003-5-5
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq444a3245d-ae0b-4e49-8011-e69953aef15b
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