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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Commemorative Plates

Closer view of plate center
11" Commemorative Plate

I am beginning to find a few commemorative plates both in antique shops and on the Internet. This image came from an online shop called Violettendenices.
According to Nancy Patterson Lamb, these special plates were created at the same time as Martha's Flowers for the American Bi-centennial year in 1976.  The 8 different Revolutionary images created on 11" dinner plates were called "Countrymen" and were patterned after the children's fortune telling rhyme (who will I become or marry in the future) from Great Britain: "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief" The 12" platter and 14" platter had the soldier (George Washington) on them. Nancy described the images as being modeled with clay in three dimension. She then fired the models, inked the images with glaze onto them, and transferred those images to the stoneware.
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6 comments:

  1. AlisonApril 27, 2013 at 2:46 PM

    Hi Michelle -- thanks so much for your blog. It's so helpful! I recently found a set of three mugs that have the NP mark but also have a handsigned signature of "Sally" on the bottom...have you ever heard of this happening before?

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  2. Nancy LambApril 27, 2013 at 11:41 PM

    I haven't seen anything yet with Sally's name on it--but that means she did the underglaze painting I'd think. Congrats on the mugs!

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  3. Nancy LambJanuary 25, 2015 at 5:00 PM

    I have now seen mugs with Sally's name on the bottom's--she made many one-of-a-kind pieces!

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  4. AnonymousMay 10, 2015 at 10:41 AM

    I have been trying to research these commemorative plates and have found very little. I came across a "tailor" I guess according to your blog, this is a woman sitting at a spin wheel making thread. How long were these made? What is the possible worth today for this plate?

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  5. AnonymousMay 17, 2015 at 3:52 PM

    The rhyme is based on men; it was a song girls sang to see who they would marry. Not sure where the woman sitting at a spinning wheel making thread fits into this rhyme. This would not be a part of this commemorative series of plates.

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  6. AnonymousMay 22, 2015 at 11:17 AM

    The children's rhyme is based on all men, it was a rhyme that girls sang to see who they would marry in the future, hence all men's professions.
    Not sure where the woman at a spinning wheel fits in despite the connection to the 1776 theme. Is it done in the same method as the one shone in the picture?

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