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Landing of Lafayette Cup Plate

Maker James Clews (English)

Maker Ralph Clews (English)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1824-36

MediumEarthenware

DimensionsOverall: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)

InscribedOn reverse: "Impressed round Clews mark".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number82.112

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, MMH, Dining Room

DescriptionDark blue transfer on white. Border has groups of large and small flowers while the central reverse depicts the landing of General Lafayette at Castle Garden, New York.

Label TextJames and Ralph Clews Cobridge, England, active 1818-1834 "Landing of Lafayette" Cup Plate, ca. 1824-1836 Staffordshire earthenware Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 82.112 This cup plate was made on suite with an entire service showing the landing of Lafayette in New York harbor. The steamboat at center is the Chancellor Livingston - the vessel that carried Lafayette. Clews copied a small print of the event issued by Samuel Maverick of New York and had the service ready for sale within months of Lafayette's arrival on August 16, 1824. The production of these and other Lafayette and Washington related tablewares no doubt spurred American glassmakers to produce pressed-glass salts with oval portraits of Washington and Lafayette, and the Lafayette boat salts.Exhibition History"First in the Hearts of His Countrymen: America Remembers George Washington 1732-1799," Chrysler Museum of Art, Nov. 23, 1999 - Summer 2001.