America and Independence #12

Pattern Category: Heraldic and Commemorative

Series: America and Independence

Alternate Names: Mansion, small boat with flag in foreground

Object Type: Toilet and Personal Hygiene

Dimensions:

  • Diameter: 13.75 inches

Description:

The series to which this plate belongs is also called The States Series, as well as The States Border Series, due to the states named in the border.   On the left is a medallion portrait of George Washington, held by Lady Justice.  Lady Liberty is on the opposite side.  There is also a Masonic symbol.  Most pieces bear the impressed Clews mark on the reverse.

Recent discoveries and the research efforts of author and lecturer Dick Henrywood indicate that all of the center views in this series are British.  The source prints for these views have led to the specific identification of all of the structures, save one.  This view is Gunnersbury House, Middlesex, and appears in an article by Dick Henrywood in Ceramics in America 2011, entitled "The States Border Series by Ralph & James Clews", as figure 11 on p. 107.


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