Willow Pattern Plate · Learning from Cooper Street · Online Exhibits at Rutgers University-Camden

Title: Willow Pattern Plate
Description: The “Willow” pattern of this teaware piece imitates the designs used on Chinese porcelain that became popular imports in the nineteenth century. A number of American firms utilized the pattern or a variation of it in their designs.
Contributor: Lucy Davis (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner.
Date: c. 1795 - 1830; photograph, June 2018
Format: Pearlware plate
Publisher: Rutgers University–Camden
Relation: Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation.
Rights: Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts
Source: Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J.
Subject: 330 BlockSee all items with this value; Alumni House DisplaySee all items with this value; ArchaeologySee all items with this value; ArtifactsSee all items with this value; CeramicsSee all items with this value; ChinaSee all items with this value; PorcelainSee all items with this value