Willoughby Smith
Plate

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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 Bend

Object Type

CERAMICS

Description

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]

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