Plate
China Plate. A standard size dinner plate of blue on white china features various locomotives of the Baltimore and Ohio Railways, as well as a landscape portrait of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, as identified in a banner at the bottom of the image. The central focus of the landscape is a bridge running over the Potomac River, with a pair of buildings on the right bank, and more smaller structures on the left. Foliage decorates the foreground at the bottom of the image and clouds grace the top. Enclosing the face of the plate is a flower and leaf band with scalloped ridges on the interior and a slight saw tooth pattern on the outer most edge. The design on the lip of the plate consists of transportation milestones and railroad locomotives. The bottom center panel depicts a pedestal marked "First Stone Balt. and Ohio Railroad," while a banner below reads, "Laid July 4, 1828." This is the only image that faces outward; all other images face inward toward the central landscape. Moving clockwise, the following panels depict a "Horse Drawn Car 1830," "The 'Tom Thumb' 1830," "The 'Atlantic' 1832," "The 'Philip E. Thomas' 1838," "'Winan's Camel' 1851," "Mogul '600' 1875," "The Cincinnatian," and the "Diesel Electric '51' 1937."
This collection of blue and white china was used in the dining cars of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad during the 100th anniversary of the founding of the line. The china is styled in the manner of the Old Staffordshire China.
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