Willoughby Smith
Plate

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Plate
Datelate 19th century
Made inWomelsdorf, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumLead-glazed earthenware
Dimensions1 5/8 × 7 3/4 in. diameter (4.1 × 19.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.63.96
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Folk Art Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
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
Impressed on the underside: W SMITH / WOMELSDORF

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