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On Display: House - Dining Room Cross Hall
Plate (Dessert plate)
Francois-Maurice Honoré's porcelain factory (Manufacture de Mme la Duchesse d' Angouleme), Rusell and La Farge
1817-1817
Category
Ceramics
Creator/Artist/Maker
Francois-Maurice Honoré's porcelain factory (Manufacture de Mme la Duchesse d' Angouleme) (Maker)
Place of Origin
Paris; France; Europe
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
1958.1606.045
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1958.1606.045
Object Name
Plate (Dessert plate)
Category
Ceramics
Creator (Role)
Francois-Maurice Honoré's porcelain factory (Manufacture de Mme la Duchesse d' Angouleme) (Maker); Rusell and La Farge (Agent for buyer)
Place of Origin
Paris; France; Europe
Date
1817-1817
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Mark
Location: Underside, near footrim
Inscription: Incised workman's mark resembling "U" or "V"
Mark/Signature: Yes
Subject(s)
- Presidential china
- Presidential provenance
- Government
- American eagle
- American themed ceramics
- Monroe
- James
- American ownership history (foreign manuf)
- American market (French manufacture)
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Painted
- Gilded
- Printed
Dimensions (inches)
1.624 (H) x 8.612 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
4.125 (H) x 21.875 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Savage, George. 1969 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Porcelain.
• Information on maker: pp. 199- 200Book: Klapthor, Margaret Brown. 1999 Official White House China: 1789 to the Present.
• Monroe's dessert service: pp. 40- 47Book: Singleton, Esther. 1907 The Story of the White House.
• Singleton mentions that Munroe paid 2, 424 francs for the 30 person dessert serviceArticle: Priddy, Sumpter & Quinn, Joan. 2008 A Monroe Punch Bowl and American Lithographers in Paris, 1814-1824. Ceramics in America. 186-202.
• Dessert plate from same Monroe service with larger discussion of Monroe ware decoration: See full article and, for dessert plate, p. 188, figs.4-5, identified as by Louis Dagoty and Edouard Honore, Paris, c. 1817Book: Conger, Clement E. & Rollins, Alexandra W. 1991 Treasures of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U. S. Department of State.
• Dessert plate from same service: p. 288, no. 179, with details on Monroe at whitehouse, service, etc.Electronic: US Depatment of State: Explore the Collections. US Department of State https://assets.diplomaticrooms.state.gov/explore-the-collection/
• James Monroe's mahogany side chair: Diplomatic Reception Rooms coll., accession no. RR-2004.0005, Philadelphia, PA, c. 1815-25, from set of 24.