Plate: K.P.M.

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Plate: K.P.M.
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  • Title :     Plate: K.P.M.
  • Artist:     Petrus Regout & Co./De Sphinx Manufacturer
  • Accession:     TD1991.191.1
  • Country:     Netherlands Maastricht
  • Date:     circa 1910 1930
  • Dimensions:     Inches 9-5/8 diameter, Centimeters 24.4 diameter
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Decorative Arts and Furniture
  • Collection Theme:     Travel, Transportation, and Tourism
  • Subject:     Ocean Travel , Colonialism , Ceramics/Ceramic Design , Travel , Transportation
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
  • URL:     TD1991.191.1.JPG
  • Tags:     Colonialism~Travel, Transportation, and Tourism~Decorative Arts and Furniture
Description:
Overall white gloss glazed porcelain plate with narrow dark blue band at rim and round blue logo at top center with crown and K.P.M inside circle; this plate was utilized on one of the K.P.M. (Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij; Royal Dutch Cargo Corp.) lines to the Dutch East Indies.