“Snow Shoe” Ice Cream Plate

1879

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Theodore Russell Davis and Haviland & Co.

“Snow Shoe” Ice Cream Plate

Designer: Theodore Russell Davis
Manufacturer: Haviland & Co.

“Snow Shoe” Ice Cream Plate

1879

Physical Qualities Porcelain, enamel, gilt, 7 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (18.4 × 17.1 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Jonathan W. Kolker, Baltimore, in Memory of Irving and Rosa Kolker

Object Number 1999.134

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

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Estate of Evalyn Walsh McClean

Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.

Inscribed: None

Markings: On underside: - Great seal [American eagle with spread wings and Seal of United States in polychrome enamels]; - "FABRIQUÉ PAR / HAVILAND & Co./ d’aprés les dessins / DE" (stamped in orange-red) above "Theo: R. Davis." (Facsimile signature in black); - “LIMOGES/HAVILAND & Co.” in brown above a cipher made of the artist’s initials “T.D.” formed from a red, white and blue pennant suspended from a crossbow with the date “1879” in brown; - "H & Co." double-underscored (stamped factory mark in green)