“Southward Flight of Duck” Soup Plate

Designed 1879-1880, in production 1880-1886

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Theodore Russell Davis and Haviland & Co.

“Southward Flight of Duck” Soup Plate

Designer: Theodore Russell Davis
Manufacturer: Haviland & Co.

“Southward Flight of Duck” Soup Plate

Designed 1879-1880, in production 1880-1886

Physical Qualities Porcelain, enamel, gilt, 8 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (21.6 × 4.4 cm.)

Portfolio/Series Design from the Hayes Presidential Porcelain Service from the Soup Series (12 plates)

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

Object Number 1999.139

Davis modeled this shape on the mountain laurel flower, “so well known and admired throughout the Atlantic States.” The scene depicts various shore birds off the Delaware coast, flying south in October by the light of the “hunter’s moon.”

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

Inscribed: Recto: artist's inititial "D" in enamel

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 11933(blue paint)'