Shape Type: Dinner & Dessert Wares

Pattern Type: Commemorative, Heraldic and Historical Events

Date: 1828-1835

Dimensions:

  • Diameter: 6.50 in (16.51 cm)

Maker: Ralph & James Clews

Description:

This plate is perhaps a dessert or bread plate. The more common name used for this series is America and Independence, due to those words appearing on the plate. Arman's numbering system made this #10 in the series

The central pattern on this example is taken from the source print shown below.   Prior to discovery of the source prints that Clews used for these patterns, researchers David and Linda Arman endeavored to provide descriptive names for them.  The Armans named this scene Building in Distance, Women in Foreground.

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