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Object Timeline

1948	Work on this object began.
2014	We photographed this object.
2015	We acquired this object.
2018	We exhibited this object.
2020	We photographed this object. We photographed this object.
2024	You found it!

Sample Plate (Bavaria)

This is a Sample plate. It was manufactured by Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory. It is dated 1948 and we acquired it in 2015. Its medium is hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

This plate documents color palettes popular in Germany just after World War II, and shows a gradation of each color from light to dark.

This object was donated by Michele Oka Doner. It is credited Gift of Michele Oka Doner in honor of Lisa Roberts.

Vase (USA)
glazed earthenware.
Gift of Ruth Friedman in memory of Harry G. Friedman.
1966-3-19

An acrylic and polyester color blanket woven with chenille yarns. The blanket consists of a grid five columns by nine rows where shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet range from pastels to grey-ish hues. The right-most column of the grid is pastel in shade, moving to the grey tones on the left, and the rows are yellow to orange to red to green to blue to indigo to violet from top to bottom.

Color Blanket, Hint, 2016
50% acrylic, 50% polyester.
Gift of Designtex Group.
2016-20-1

Manufacturer's Color Blanket (USA)
synthetic.
Gift of Harvey Smith.
1968-135-76

Our curators have highlighted 7 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Horizontal rectangular print with fifty colorful squares arranged in a grid five squares high by ten squares wide. The primary color shifts in a gradient from yellow filling the squares at left to red at right. Each square is filled with thin vertical lines in a contrasting color shifting from blue to green to yellow from top to bottom and bordered in that same color. Thin white lines fill the spaces in between the squares and a thick white border at top and bottom. Faint handwritten words in pencil at lower right.

Print, League of Women Voters
screenprint on paper.
Gift of Joshua Mack.
1995-38-8

Sample Plate (France)
glazed earthenware.
Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
2003-5-5

Sample Plate (France)
glazed porcelain.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment.
2005-11-1

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 2 × 19 cm (13/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

underglaze green Nymphenberg below a shield surmounted by a crown on underside center

Cite this object as

Sample Plate (Bavaria); Manufactured by Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory (Germany); hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel; H x diam.: 2 × 19 cm (13/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Gift of Michele Oka Doner in honor of Lisa Roberts; 2014-52-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/75gmr/
Accession Number 2014-52-1
Object ID 68731069