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Sold Commemorative Plate Of 1939 New York World Fair - Lincolnshire

Description

Commemorative Plate Of 1939 New York World Fair
Made in the U.S.A. by Homer Laughlin
Decoration by Charles Murphy
150th Anniversary of George Washington - First President 1789 - 1939

Amazing deco / modernist design

Features his Art Deco-style painting of the fairgrounds. At the center is his depiction of the futuristic Trylon and Perisphere structures; fair pavilions ring the perimeter.

Murphy’s plate represents America’s focus on the future late in the Great Depression.

DIMENSIONS 3/4 x 10 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (1.9 x 25.7 x 25.7 cm)

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION

Plate. Glazed cream-colored earthenware, polychrome printed decoration.
1939 New York World's Fair souvenir.

Metallic brown edging around rim.

Multi-colored printed decoration to rim is divided into five segments by fair symbols, Trylon and Perisphere, with out curving rays from top.

Five exhibition halls from fair are depicted within.
Clockwise from top:-
Federal Government Building
Marine Transportation Building
Hall of Communications
Food Exhibitors Building
The Building of Contemporary Arts.

Background of rim decoration is predominantly purple with beams of lighter purple running through.
Centre of plate has purple Trylon and Perisphere on darker purple circular background. "1939" above Perisphere.

Tip and base of Trylon bisect encircling purple on lighter purple inscription:

"NEW [inverted triangle] YORK [inverted triangle] WORLDS [inverted triangle] FAIR [inverted triangle]".

As exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum New York.

More about the 1939 world fair (nothing about the plate!)

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