Dish, Dessert
Porcelain dish stamped "Shakers Mt. Lebanon N.Y.”
01/1887
Description
Porcelain dessert dish. Around the interior rim of the bowl there are two thin black lines with a light-green stripe 9/32" wide in between them to create a border. Below the border, echoing the shape of the bowl, there is light-green transfer-printed text, in all caps, which reads "SHAKERS MT. LEBANON N.Y.". The font of the text has a white outline giving the letters a three-dimensional quality. On the inside of the dish there are two hand-painted floral decorations with brown and green stems with green leaves. One of these decorations has an orange flower with five petals around yellow floral disc and a second flower with three small petals. The second of these floral designs has two large pink flowers around yellow floral discs with small brown dots. This design has another pink flower with three small petals. The exterior of the bowl is solid white with no decoration.
Notes
On October 12, 1886 Benjamin Gates, Cornelia French, and Mary Hazard of the Church family traveled to New York City to order plates from Union Porcelain Works. On February 20, 1887 a note in Anna Dodgsons journal refers to new plates with "Shaker & c". These are the only dishes marked with a community name.
New York Mount Lebanon Church Family
