Maker
Willoughby Smith (American, 1835–1905)American, 1835–1905
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Plate
Datelate 19th century
Made inWomelsdorf, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumLead-glazed earthenware
Dimensions1 5/8 × 7 7/8 in. diameter (4.1 × 20.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.63.95
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Folk Art Room
On view
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Department
Bayou BendObject Type
Related examples: One formerly in the George H. Lorimer Collection, now in the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan (Antiques 73 [February 1958], p. 164); Lasansky 1990, pp. 328–29, pl. IV.
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.
Provenance[Lamb’s Mill Antiques, Kutztown, Pennsylvania]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1963; given to MFAH, by 1966.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Impressed on underside: W SMITH / WOMELSDORF [Ramsay 1939, p. 280, or Lehner 1988, p. 430]
Cataloguing data may change with further research.
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c. 1689–1702
Tin-glazed earthenware (delftware)
B.2017.12
