Homer Laughlin Serving Plate
date: label: date made
content: c. 1909
label: date made
content: ca 1909
name: label: maker
content: Homer Laughlin China Co.
notes: label: Description
content: About Homer Laughlin China Company: The Homer Laughlin firm was founded in 1871 in Newell, West Virginia by the two brothers, Shakespeare and Homer Laughlin. A long-lived pottery, it survived two world wars and continued until 2020, when it was sold to Steelite, a British tableware manufacturer. Though Homer Laughlin China produced art pottery in its earlier days, it is best known for its Fiesta line, a brightly-colored Art Deco-styled set of tableware that was designed by the noted ceramicist, Frederick Hurten Rhead. Rhead was Homer Laughlin's art director from 1927 until his death in 1942. Fiesta ware is still produced by Fiesta Tableware Company, a division of Steelite. The New York Times called Fiesta “the most collected brand of china in the United States” (Alexander 2002). Homer Laughlin China Company was known for many dinnerware designs and also produced commemorative plates and art pottery vases.
label: Description
content: (Alexander, Kelly, 2002.“The Way We Live Now”. The New York Times, December 1.)
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content: About the Object:
label: Description
content: White-bodied earthenware oval-shaped serving plate. Short sides flare to shaped, scalloped rim. Shallow relief beading and lacework design around rim. Foliate design around rim and ornate circular design in center of plate in overglaze gold.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: West Virginia, Newell
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth Hunter Sobolewski
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0215.12
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0215.12
label: accession number
content: 1994.0215
objectType: label: Object Name
content: serving plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: earthenware (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: refined (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 8 1/4 in x 11 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 20.955 cm x 28.575 cm
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 21 cm x 28.2 cm; x 8 1/4 in x 11 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 11 1/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 20.955 cm x 28.2575 cm