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Plate (France)
This is a plate. It was designed by Joseph Théodore Deck. It is dated ca. 1870 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is glazed earthenware. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
While the Hewitt sisters rarely bought objects for the museum that were even close to contemporary, this plate is an exception. Ceramics interested the Joseph-Theodore Deck was an innovator in ceramics whose glazes produced strong colors and a variety of effects, including the appearance of champlevé enamel seen in this plate.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled An Inherited Innovation.
This object was
donated by
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Eleanor Garnier Hewitt.
- Kremlin Service Dessert Plate
- gilt and glazed hard-paste porcelain.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2005-6-1
- Latitude for Uniqueness Series
- tableware, research samples.
- Courtesy of Kirstie Van Noort.
- NATURE.033
- Book, Floriated Ornament: A Series of Thirty-One Designs, 1849
- lithograph on paper with hand-colored plates.
- Gift of Leopold Eidlitz, Smithsonian Libraries, NK1565 .P8X 1849.
- 139.2018.5
Its dimensions are
H x diam.: 7 x 50 cm (2 3/4 x 19 11/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On underside, impressed: "TIDECK"
Cite this object as
Plate (France); Designed by Joseph Théodore Deck (French, 1823 - 1891); glazed earthenware; H x diam.: 7 x 50 cm (2 3/4 x 19 11/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor Garnier Hewitt; 1931-40-37
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.
