Oyster Plate

Arts of the Americas

Designed 1879; produced 1880–87

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Theodore R. Davis (Designer)
Title: Oyster Plate
Place: Limoges (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1880–1887
Medium: Porcelain and enamel with gilding
Inscriptions: Bottom marked: stamped in orange ink: "ABRIQUE PAR / HAVILAND & Co. / d'apres les dessins / DE" / black ink: "Theo: R. Davis" [script, underscored]; stamped in blue ink: "DESIGN PATENTED / AUGUST 10th 1880"; marked, light black ink: "H&Co." [double underscored].
Dimensions: Diam.: 22.2 cm (8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior gift of Joseph L. Block, Leigh B. Block, Mrs. Oscar Serlin, and Mrs. Daniel Saidenberg in memory of Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Block, Chicago; American Art Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 2009.732
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Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009–10) p. 13.
Judith Barter et al., Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 28–29, 229, cat. 92, fig. 13 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 92; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014 (Chicago only).

Private Collection, Montana, about 1969; bought by the Art Institute of Chicago from auction of Important American Furniture, Folk Art & Prints, Christie’s, New York, N.Y., September 30, 2009 (lot 111).

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