Dinner plate with Harlem Toile basketball vignette

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A large, white, bone china dinner plate from the Wedgwood X Sheila Bridges collaboration, featuring the basketball vignette from Bridges' Harlem Toile de Jouy design. The dinner plate is part of a four-piece place setting set that also consists of a large soup bowl with horses (2022.75.1.2), a smaller bowl with picnic scene (2022.75.1.3), and a lavender accent plate with jump rope scene (2022.75.1.4). This is a large, round white plate with a vignette of three young men playing basketball set along the plate’s proper right side. The men wear 18th century clothing and play beneath a tree with the basket suspended from a limb by ribbon. A balustrade is visible in the background behind them. The only color in the otherwise grey-toned design is the reddish-brown basketball and the yellow of one of the player's shirts. The plate has a black rim.

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