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Plate, from the Canton Dinner Service Plate

This is a plate. It was designed by Edward Colonna and collected by Gustav Stickley and manufactured by Gerard, Dufraisseix, and Abbot, Limoges and made for Samuel Bing and retailed by L'Art Nouveau. It is dated ca. 1900 and we acquired it in 1989. Its medium is hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

It is credited Museum purchase from General Acquisition Endowment.

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 2.2 x 24.4 cm (7/8 x 9 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Underside: [1] "l'Art / Nouveau / Paris" flanked by scrolling lines, stamped in green underglaze (retailer's mark) [2] "CHRISTIE'S" above handwritten "6732" and "35", the numbers separated by a horizontal line, printed in black on round label

It is signed

Not signed

It is inscribed

Uninscribed

Cite this object as

Plate, from the Canton Dinner Service Plate; Designed by Edward Colonna (German, 1862–1948); Collected by Gustav Stickley (1858 – 1942); Manufactured by Gerard, Dufraisseix, and Abbot, Limoges (France); Retailed by L'Art Nouveau (France); Made for Siegfried (Samuel) Bing (French, 1838 - 1905); France; hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel; H x diam.: 2.2 x 24.4 cm (7/8 x 9 5/8 in.); Museum purchase from General Acquisition Endowment; 1989-5-2

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Deconstructing Power : W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World's Fair.

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