Numero oggetto
M.57.8
Titolo
W G Grace, Century of Centuries Commemorative Plate
Data
1896 - 1896-01-26
Creatore
Motivo della creazione
18 produced for the guests of a dinner hosted by Grace on 26 January 1896, Commissioned by W G Grace.
Marks: trade mark as M.46.11, etc.; written in black script: X 1763, " 53.
Materiale
Portata
diameter: 22 cm
Descrizione
Wavy, rimmed plate. Royal blue and gold on white ground, recording the 100 centuries of W G Grace, with his facsimile signature in the centre.
Almost certainly commissioned by Grace for a dinner given by him to 17 members of the Century Club in Bristol, January 1896, in return for the Club’s dinner in this honour in June 189. On the reverse is a table plan of the 18 diners, each of whom retained a plate.
Purchased from a nephew of the Chair of the earlier dinner
China Plate
W G Grace, Century of Centuries
S J Keppel and son
1896
Grace himself commissioned this plate exclusively for the 18 guests of a dinner to celebrate his 100th first-class century in 1896
Purchased, 1957
M.46.11 : China Plate for W.G. Grace's Century of Centuries 1866-1895
M.48.26 : China Plate for W.G.Grace commemorating Century of Centuries
M.45.10 : China plate commemorating W.G. Grace
MCC/AAL/2/TEMP237 : G Neville Weston
MCC/AAL/2/TEMP122 : Curator's correspondence relating to loans to the Hove Museum of Art and the Commonwealth Relations Office
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