  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  &quot;The Advertisement for a Wife&quot; Platter
  
  
  Artwork Date
  19th century
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  James Clews  (Maker)
  English, 1790 - 1861
  Ralph Clews  (Maker)
  English, active ca. 1818 - 1834
  
  
  
  Medium
  Transfer-printed glazed earthenware
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 1 3/8 × 15 1/8 × 11 5/8 inches (3.5 × 38.4 × 29.5 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Ceramics
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of Mrs. Gustavus D. Pope
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  17.186
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
