Vegetable dish

Object/Artifact

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Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Vegetable dish

Entry/Object ID

VC.59.455 a-b

Description

Covered vegetable dish: Of white porcelain with slight greyish cast and somewhat uneven ("orange peel") surface. Cover, surmounted by large blue-and-gold-decorated vegetable finial (an artichoke on side?), gold decorated and arising from blue leaves, has gold rim, blue border with gold-scalloped red band above, and at each side, the initials "E S C" within a spade-shaped shield set against ermine mantling with gold tasseled and fringed blue drapery, having Louis XVI bow-knots, one gold, the other blue, at top and immediately above shield; pseudo-armorial crests are linked by serpentine line of chevron pattern, half gold, half blue. Dish, decorated with border, and (interior) crest and serpentine line, as described above on cover, ovoid shape, with four shallow reeds and corresponding indentations in rim.

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1795 - 1800

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Transcription

Owners' monogram: "E S C"

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

VC.59.455 A-B
VC.59.455a-b

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

5-3/8 in

Width

9-1/8 in

Length

11 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 9 1/8 x 11 in. (13.7 x 23.2 x 27.9 cm)

Material

Porcelain (hard-paste)

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Miss Muriel G. Cole

Notes

Former owner

Related Entries

Notes

VC.59.453 - Bowl - Part of set VC.59.454 a-b - Vegetable dish - Part of set VC.59.456 a-b - Sauce tureen - Part of set VC.59.457 - Salt dish - Part of set VC.59.458 - Hot water plate - Part of set VC.59.459 - Platter - Part of set VC.59.460 - Platter - Part of set VC.59.461 - Platter - Part of set VC.59.462 a-b - Cup - Part of set VC.59.463 a-b - Cup - Part of set VC.59.464 a-b - Cup - Part of set VC.59.465 - Cream pitcher - Part of set VC.59.466 - Soup plate - Part of set VC.59.467 - Soup plate - Part of set VC.59.468 - Soup plate - Part of set VC.59.469 - Soup plate - Part of set VC.59.470 - Plate - Part of set VC.59.471 - Plate - Part of set VC.59.472 - Plate - Part of set VC.59.473 - Plate - Part of set VC.59.474 - Plate - Part of set VC.59.475 - Plate - Part of set VC.59.476 - Plate - Part of set VC.59.477 - Plate - Part of set VC.59.478 - Plate - Part of set VC.59.479 - Plate - Part of set VC.59.480 - Bowl - Part of set

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Evaluation of entire 28 piece set at time of purchase $1600.00. Date unknown.

Note Type

General Note

Note

W .453-.480

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Van Cortlandt Manor, Dining Room