Dish, Serving
Porcelain dish stamped "Shakers, Mt. Lebanon N.Y."
12/1886
Description
Small white oval dish. Along the inside rim is a border of two thin black lines with a green stripe 5/16" wide in between them. Inside the dish, below the border is green text in all caps which reads "SHAKERS MT. LEBANON N.Y." The green font of the text has white spaces surrounded by green to create a three-dimensional quality to the letters. There are three floral designs on the inside of the dish with green and brown stems/branches. One straddles the curved edge of the base and the side near "SHAKERS". This design has one blue flower with seven petals. The other floral design has one orange with five heart-shaped petals and one tripartite petal and another with one tripartite petal with an oval petal on each side. The third floral design is a small sprig with two blue oval petals. The external sides have 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
