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Plate
1810-183519th Century
11 in.
Ralph Stevenson, (1810–1832)
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
earthenware with transfer-printed decoration
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1980.90
A mulberry-colored transfer-printed earthenware plate with scalloped rim. Detailed decoration with the incriptions "Peace on Earth," and "Give us this day our daily bread," written on the center with a scene of the peaceable kingdom/ The pattern name is stamped on the bottom, "Millenium /RL" The impressed mark of an anchor is also on the bottom.
Transfer printed decoration in purple of biblical scene of a young boy with animals, with “PEACE ON EARTH” in an sunburst shaped medallion; an oblong cartouche with a man praying and “Give us this day our daily Bread” in script. Rim and cavetto with floral border
Description from Transfer Collector’s Club website: “ It is important to know that the word "Millennium" is misspelled on the plate! LaidackerChinaII1951, p. 80 says this pattern was extremely popular and was found all over the United States. The symbolism of the pattern is discussed by Rev. H.W. Hartman in Laidacker, 1940 Vol. I pp. 50-51. The word "Millennium" comes from the Latin "mille" meaning thousand and "annus" meaning year. It refers to the second coming of Christ who would rule for a thousand years before the Last Judgment. At the top of the plate is the all-seeing eye of God. Below is the Bible opened to Isaiah's prophecy, Ch.XI:6: "The wolf also shall dwell with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them". This describes the scene in the center of the plate. The dove and the olive branch are symbolic of "Peace on Earth" which is written below them. The man beneath the scene with the child and lion is a follower of Christ reciting the "Lord's Prayer", which includes "Give us this day our daily bread". The lush fruit, flowers, and sheaves of grain in the border symbolize the fertility of nature that will abound during the Millennium. The pattern is illustrated on a 10.25 inch plate in pink in Color Plate 15 in Williams 2007. Information about this pattern is also found in William Weber, p. 645 and Coys Henrywood 1982, p. 247. Laidacker says that the maker is probably Ralph Stevenson & Son (R.S. & S.), as some plates marked with these letters were noted in the possession of someone named Janet Ehnes. He also mentions that pieces are found with the Hill & Henderson, Importers, New Orleans mark. Hill & Henderson were the main importer for the Davenport factory in the Mid-West. Without an example of the maker's mark, all is conjecture, but a plate with a Stevenson mark has now been found!
Condition: Stained
Transfer printed decoration in purple of biblical scene of a young boy with animals, with “PEACE ON EARTH” in an sunburst shaped medallion; an oblong cartouche with a man praying and “Give us this day our daily Bread” in script. Rim and cavetto with floral border
Description from Transfer Collector’s Club website: “ It is important to know that the word "Millennium" is misspelled on the plate! LaidackerChinaII1951, p. 80 says this pattern was extremely popular and was found all over the United States. The symbolism of the pattern is discussed by Rev. H.W. Hartman in Laidacker, 1940 Vol. I pp. 50-51. The word "Millennium" comes from the Latin "mille" meaning thousand and "annus" meaning year. It refers to the second coming of Christ who would rule for a thousand years before the Last Judgment. At the top of the plate is the all-seeing eye of God. Below is the Bible opened to Isaiah's prophecy, Ch.XI:6: "The wolf also shall dwell with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them". This describes the scene in the center of the plate. The dove and the olive branch are symbolic of "Peace on Earth" which is written below them. The man beneath the scene with the child and lion is a follower of Christ reciting the "Lord's Prayer", which includes "Give us this day our daily bread". The lush fruit, flowers, and sheaves of grain in the border symbolize the fertility of nature that will abound during the Millennium. The pattern is illustrated on a 10.25 inch plate in pink in Color Plate 15 in Williams 2007. Information about this pattern is also found in William Weber, p. 645 and Coys Henrywood 1982, p. 247. Laidacker says that the maker is probably Ralph Stevenson & Son (R.S. & S.), as some plates marked with these letters were noted in the possession of someone named Janet Ehnes. He also mentions that pieces are found with the Hill & Henderson, Importers, New Orleans mark. Hill & Henderson were the main importer for the Davenport factory in the Mid-West. Without an example of the maker's mark, all is conjecture, but a plate with a Stevenson mark has now been found!
Condition: Stained
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