Liberty Queen's Ware Plate
- Description (Brief)
- Ivory-colored ceramic plate with the "Liberty" motif consisting of a center shield with the American Stars and Stripes surrounded by eleven Allied flags from World War I, including (from left to right) Cuba, Romania, Montenegro, Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Russia, Japan, Portugal, and Serbia. Lillian Gary Taylor designed and sold Liberty China and Queen's Ware to raise funds to support charitable relief organizations during WWI.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Dr. Victor Polikoff and Mrs. Muriel Polikoff
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- Cultural and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Domestic Furnishings
- Military
- Liberty China
- April 6, 1917 - November 11, 1918
- ID Number
- 1980.0790.02
- accession number
- 1980.0790
- catalog number
- 1980.0790.02
- commissioner
- Taylor, Lillian Gary
- Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
- Related Publication
- Taylor, Lillian Gary. Liberty China and Queen’s Ware: Manufactured and Sold Solely for the Benefit of Various Allied War Charities
- subject
- World War I
- Women's History
- Charity Organizations
- coat-of-arms
- Flags
- Fund Raising
- Liberty
- Patriotic
- Tea Drinking
- related event
- World War I
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, Staffordshire
- Physical Description
- polychrome (overall surface decoration color name)
- ceramic, earthenware, refined (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9/16 in x 6 1/8 in; 1.42875 cm x 15.5575 cm
- National Museum of American History
- Object Name
- plate
- Object Type
- plate
