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Sample Plate (Denmark)
This is a Sample plate. It was manufactured by Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory. It is dated 1930s and we acquired it in 2003. Its medium is moulded and glazed porcelain, with enamelled color. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
This plate, a product of the Royal Copenhagen factory, has a mark indicating it was produced sometime after 1889. The surface is marked “Stelling’s Porcelaensfarver” in the center, surrounded by samples of glazes in various colors brushed on in small wedge shapes around the rim and the circular well. Each color has its corresponding code number and could have served as a guide for prospective clients to select colors or as a guide for porcelain painters at the factory.
This plate is an example of the “sampling” format. This format was widely used by manufacturers to assist consumers in choosing the right combination of color, design, and materials, for products ranging from textiles to dinner plates. These products have become stylistic indicators of the time in terms of the choices of color and design. They also are beautiful artifacts in the arrangement of visual information on either the page of a sample book or the rim of a plate.
Sample plates are relatively rare and greatly enrich the museum’s documentary holdings related to ceramics design, technology, and marketing.
It is credited Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
- Sample Book, Genuine Turkey Red
- label: woven cotton samples, leather binding, paper label, brass rivets.
- Gift of Harvey Smith.
- 1967-20-35
- Buffaloware Sample Plate
- molded and glazed earthenware.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment.
- 2005-11-3
- Sample Plate Plate
- hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment.
- 2005-11-2
Our curators have highlighted 13 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Sample Plate (France)
- glazed porcelain.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment.
- 2005-11-1
- Print, Farbenkugel in 7 Lichtstufen und 12 Tönen (Color Sphere in 7 Light...
- lithograph on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, N7430 .U86 1921X.
- 92.2016.41
- Manufacturer's Color Blanket (USA)
- synthetic.
- Gift of Harvey Smith.
- 1968-135-76
Its dimensions are
H x diam.: 2.8 x 25.3 cm (1 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On underside: in underglaze green, circular format: "ROYAL" / image of a crown / COPENHAGEN / DENMARK", ( Mark in use starting in 1922) above three wavey lines in underglaze blue.
It is inscribed
In center of plate: "Stelling's Porcelaensfarver"
Cite this object as
Sample Plate (Denmark); Manufactured by Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory (Denmark); moulded and glazed porcelain, with enamelled color; H x diam.: 2.8 x 25.3 cm (1 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.); Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund; 2003-5-4
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.
