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Plate, Dinner

Object number2020.21.28

Manufacturer Lamberton Scammell China

MediumCeramic; Glaze

Credit LineGift of The Twentieth Century Club

DescriptionCircular white glazed ceramic plate. Sloped rim surrounding shallow sunken circular center. Top center of rim has circular club seal with gold border, black text around perimeter (Latin text and club name), and baby blue background with classical female figure holding quill pen in right hand and paper in left hand. Blue ribbons around the perimeter of the plate and surrounding the club seal. Circular foot. Underside has two sets of three raised concentric circles, one located on underside of rim and one surrounding central maker's mark. DimensionsHeight x Diameter: 1.188 x 9.938 in. (3 x 25.2 cm)
InscriptionsRim has circular seal with black text around perimeter "NON NOBIS SOLVM SED TOTI MUNDO / TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB ALLEGHENY COUNTY".
MarksUnderside has green maker's mark at center with text "LAMBERTON / S / CHINA / SCAMMELL".
Historical NotesPlate from the Twentieth Century Club. The Twentieth Century Club was founded in 1894 with the aim to “create an organization for women’s work, though and activity, advancing her interested, promoting art, science and literature.” Women’s clubs were part of a greater social movement in the late 1800s that grew out of the idea that women had a moral duty and responsibility to transform society and public policy. This was a progressive era movement with links to suffrage and temperance, although not all members of women’s clubs adhered to either movement. The Pittsburgh club first met at the Thompson mansion at 408 Penn Avenue. They sponsored lectures and classes on language, literature, travel, history and science and were a member of the State Federation of Women’s Clubs. In 1910, they opened a club at their present location in Oakland, and in 1930 the clubhouse was redesigned by Benno Janssen. Many of these clubs saw a decline in the 1960s.

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