Greenish-brown glass with kick in bottom. Cork sealed in mouth of bottle with pinkish wax ('Red Seal') and copper wire. Old torn tag around neck 'Dennison Mfg. Co. Tag Mfrs. 25 & 28 Franklin St. Boston'. Label on bottle printed with '1827 Red Seal Madeira'
Silver caster. Elaborate floral decorated with detachable lid. Lid is pierced and topped with a small bud-like knob. Pine cone design. Neck and bulbous body have flower and leaf relief design. Etching at the bottom of the body reads, 'James Buchanan. Whe
Two salt dishes. Diamond-footed with design cut in bottom, flower / starburst diamond pattern cut around below edge. Edge or lip scalloped, oval-shaped, higher at two narrow ends than at sides. Finger molding at bottom of dish.
Length and width dimensions are the measurements for the base.
Object ID
W.89.98.1-2
Notes
Bases and edges chipped. Old numbers were A71.4 (1-2) Had been on loan from Woodlawn since 1958. Given permanently in 1984. Numbers chnaged to reflect this. History of ownership unknown beyond Woodlawn Collection.
Leaded glass. 10 sided bottom. Finger-cut design toward bottom. 10 sided finger-cut shoulder. Neck has 3 beaded rings and flattish lip. Stopper is drop-shaped, pointed at top and is 7 faceted. Body is slightly flared to shoulder.
One of two matching silverplate bases (1b-2b) that are paired with two round Sandwich cut glass salt cellars (1a-2a). The short silver plate bases terminate on four ball feet situated at each corner. The square bases are hollow and each have an opening upon which the glass salt cellars rest. Silver bases have a ribbed shoulder decor rounded up to neck of base. Neck has two bands with slanting lines, repeated around outside of flare.
Platter of ironstone transferware with clear glaze. Rectangular with clipped corners, recessed bottom and moderately wide sides that extend outward. White body is devoid of decoration except for black transfer scene of a long bridge spanning a river, 5 people in foreground, town at right end of bridge and another in the distance on right bank. Underside has apparent impressed mark and transfer maker's mark at center: under a spread eagle with shield is a "sign" reading "COLUMBIA BRIDGE ON THE SUSQUEHANNA". Below it is "W.R.", indicating maker William Ridgway & Co. Sticker on bottom is: "$390" and "CLP". This river scene is a variation of the print done by William Henry Bartlett (see G98.12.21).
Shelton or Hanley, England
Provenance
Purchased in Adamstown Antiques Gallery for Heritage Center collection. Transferred from Heritage Center, December 2012.
Pearlware Staffordshire china plate has purple transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Scallop-edged rim has flowers and C-scrolls while sunken bottom has bucolic scene of 2-story house, outbuildings, trees, wooden fence and recumbent cow. A man in late 18th - early 19th c. garb and Quaker broad-rimmed hat walks with a cane in foreground. Underside has printed pattern name and maker under an umbrella canopy: "The Residence/ of the late/ RICHARD JORDAN/ NEW JERSEY/ J H & Co" Impressed at center of underside is mark of maker resembling an airplane propeller within a circle.
One of a set of 6, all have removed paper labels with "SD #48" on back; one has label "Staffordshire" and three have "H220", "H221", and "H222" indicating a Heritage Center loan. See file for info on abolitionist Quaker preacher Richard Jordan (1756-1826).
This set of plates was found in collection and believed to be part of the Sauder estate.
Although produced in England, the Staffordshired china shown depicts the New Jersey residence of the late Richard Jordan, a Quaker preacher in Newton, Burlington Country (near Camden).
Born in 1756, Jordan was one of the first Quakers to publicly campaign against the holding of slaves. After traveling extensively on the east coast and in Europe, he published a travel journal that gave him a degree of fame in the eastern United States.
In 1809 Jordan joined the Newton, New Jersey Quaker Meeting and settled on a small farm in what is now Camden, where he died in 1826. During the last year of his life, Jordan was sketched standing in front of his farm by this friend, William Mason, a Philadelphia drawing teacher. The china service was ordered by friends of the preacher after his death.
Pearlware Staffordshire china plate has purple transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Scallop-edged rim has flowers and C-scrolls while sunken bottom has bucolic scene of 2-story house, outbuildings, trees, wooden fence and recumbent cow. A man in late 18th - early 19th c. garb and Quaker broad-rimmed hat walks with a cane in foreground. Underside has printed pattern name and maker under an umbrella canopy: "The Residence/ of the late/ RICHARD JORDAN/ NEW JERSEY/ J H & Co" Impressed at center of underside is mark of maker resembling an airplane propeller within a circle.
One of a set of 6, all have removed paper labels with "SD #48" on back; one has label "Staffordshire" and three have "H220", "H221", and "H222" indicating a Heritage Center loan. See file for info on abolitionist Quaker preacher Richard Jordan (1756-1826).
This set of plates was found in collection and believed to be part of the Sauder estate.
Pearlware Staffordshire china plate has purple transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Scallop-edged rim has flowers and C-scrolls while sunken bottom has bucolic scene of 2-story house, outbuildings, trees, wooden fence and recumbent cow. A man in late 18th - early 19th c. garb and Quaker broad-rimmed hat walks with a cane in foreground. Underside has printed pattern name and maker under an umbrella canopy: "The Residence/ of the late/ RICHARD JORDAN/ NEW JERSEY/ J H & Co" Impressed at center of underside is mark of maker resembling an airplane propeller within a circle.
One of a set of 6, all have removed paper labels with "SD #48" on back; one has label "Staffordshire" and three have "H220", "H221", and "H222" indicating a Heritage Center loan. See file for info on abolitionist Quaker preacher Richard Jordan (1756-1826).
This set of plates was found in collection and believed to be part of the Sauder estate.
