Plate
Although this porcelain blank was manufactured by Haviland and Company in Limoges, France, the decoration was applied by Maude Mason of New York. Maude Mason and her sister Elizabeth, the Misses Mason, were members of the New York Society of the Keramic Arts and taught china painting; later in life Maude taught design and porcelain decoration at the Fawcett School of Industrial Art in Newark, New Jersey. Maude excelled in conventional decoration, as illustrated by this plate decorated with a border of stylized trees. The muted gray blue, orange and green typify the tertiary palette favored by china decorators working in the conventional style. She displayed a plate painted with this design in the 1904 New York Society of the Keramic Arts exhibition.
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate
- Decorator: Maud Mason
- Manufacturer: Manufactured by Haviland & Co. (American and French, 1864–1931)
- Date: ca. 1904
- Geography: Made in Haute-Vienne, Limoges, France; Made in New York, New York, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Porcelain, overglaze enamel decoration
- Dimensions: H. 1 in. (2.5 cm); Diam. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)
- Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of the American Wing Fund and Anonymous Gift, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.307.7
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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