“Indian Basket Weave” After-Coffee Plate

1878

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Theodore Russell Davis and Haviland & Co.

“Indian Basket Weave” After-Coffee Plate

Designer: Theodore Russell Davis
Manufacturer: Haviland & Co.

“Indian Basket Weave” After-Coffee Plate

1878

Physical Qualities Porcelain, enamel, gilt, 9 in. (22.9 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Frederica Kolker Saxon, Baltimore, in Memory of Irving and Rosa Kolker

Object Number 1999.141

"Indian Basket Weave" after-coffee plate is a design from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Porcelain Service. Porcelain with enamels and gilt decoration. The colors were applied using chromolithographic and decalcomania processes. Afterwards, decorators painted the plate with enamel colors to add shading and to enhance the design. The plate is round and molded to represent a Native American basket with gilt switches and reeds "woven" together.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1999; Jonathan W. Kolker, Baltimore, MD by descent, 1980s; Irving Mason (1895-1957) and Rosa Jacobson Kolker (1907-1998), Baltimore, MD by purchase

Former Prov - check files
Estate of Evalyn Walsh McClean

Benskin, Elizabeth, and Suzy Wolffe. Teacher's Guide to the American Collection. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, pages 55 and 63.

Inscribed: None

Markings: UNDERNEATH, (painted), 'FABRIQUE PAR/HAVILAND & Co./d'apres les dessins/DE(red paint)/Theo. R. Davis(black paint)/ H&Co(underlined, all in green paint)/DESIGN PATENTED/AUGUST 10th 1880/No 1193(blue paint)'