Name/Title
Platter, ServingDescription
Serving plate: historical blue; oriental scenery; deep well transfer print blue Indian scene (Taj Mahal); three tombs; river foreground with two boats, one under sail, second oar propelled by ten men; two turbaned men foreground beneath two towering palms; floral border deep blue; two paper lables attached to top rim
Transfer print label on bottom:
"ORIENTAL SCENERY;
I. Hall & Sons
TOMB OF THE EMPEROR SHAH JEHAN"
Provenance: gummed label on plate rim states: "From this platter five generations have been served Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey.
1. Charles and Emila (Atherton) Hersey.
2. Charles A. and Emeline (Sawyer) Hersey.
3. Phillip O. and Jennie (Hersey) Dickson
4. Henry Hersey and Betty (Stuart) Dickson
5. Henry Stuart and George Henry Dickson their children"