Object Details
- commissioner
- Taylor, Lillian Gary
- Wedgwood and Sons, Ltd, Josiah
- Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
- Description (Brief)
- Ivory-colored ceramic plate with the "Liberty" motif consisting of a center shield with the American Stars and Stripes surrounded by eleven Allied flags from World War I, including (from left to right) Cuba, Romania, Montenegro, Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Russia, Japan, Portugal, and Serbia. Lillian Gary Taylor designed and sold Liberty China and Queen's Ware to raise funds to support charitable relief organizations during WWI.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Victor Polikoff and Muriel Polikoff
- April 6, 1917 - November 11, 1918
- ID Number
- 1980.0790.03
- accession number
- 1980.0790
- catalog number
- 1980.0790.03
- Object Name
- plate
- Object Type
- plate
- Physical Description
- polychrome (overall surface decoration color name)
- ceramic, earthenware, refined (overall material)
- gilt (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 19.685 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, Staffordshire
- Related Publication
- Taylor, Lillian Gary. Liberty China and Queen’s Ware: Manufactured and Sold Solely for the Benefit of Various Allied War Charities
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Liberty China
- Military
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Women's History
- general subject association
- Charity Organizations
- decorative motif
- coat-of-arms
- Flags
- web subject
- Fund Raising
- decorative motif
- Liberty
- Patriotic
- web subject
- Tea Drinking
- Subject
- World War I
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_596474
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-258e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
