Lyman, Fenton & Co.
Shovel Plate or Tile

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Shovel Plate or Tile
Datec. 1849–1858
Made inBennington, Vermont, United States
MediumLead-glazed earthenware (flint enamel ware)
Dimensions7 5/16 × 7 1/2 × 1 3/8 in. (18.6 × 19.1 × 3.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.57.47
Not on view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Related examples: Barret 1958, p. 133, pl. 194a.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


ProvenanceDr. Pleasant Hunter, Newark, New Jersey; [George S. McKearin, Hoosick Falls, New York]; possibly [Whimsy Antiques, Arlington, Vermont]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1957; given to MFAH.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Impressed on underside: Lyman Fenton & Co.; / Fenton's / ENAMEL / PATENTED / 1849. / BENNINGTON, Vt. [Barret p. 14, no. 9a, except that Bayou Bend example has a ";" after "Co."]

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