Title:
Texian Campaigne china plates
Description:
Texian Campaigne plates, two pieces. Staffordshire china. Depict a battlefield scene in green and white. Made by Staffordshire in England during the Mexican War.
Description:
Historical Note: Texian Campaigne china plates are transfer ware, a process where a scene is engraved on copper and then inked. Attention to historical accuracy was not the main concern of the Staffordshire artist, but rather portraying a romanticized view of the war. A very thin piece of tissue is placed over the ink and then the tissue is placed on top of a pottery blank plate transferring the scene to the plate. The plate could then be glazed to finish it. Most often, transfer ware was utilitarian and used for dinner sets, tea sets and washstand sets among other things. It was most popular in blue but could also be green, red, brown, black, pink, purple or more colors. There are believed to be three artists responsible for the Texian Campaigne china, all based in Staffordshire, England: J.B., T.W., and A. Shaw, who was the Staffordshire potter Anthony Shaw. The artists' initials can usually be found on the base within a scroll cartouche over the words Texian Campaigne. The conflict between the United States and Mexico in 1846-1848 had its roots in the annexation of Texas and the westward thrust of American settlers. On assuming the American presidency in 1845, James K. Polk attempted to secure Mexican agreement to setting the boundary at the Rio Grande and to the sale of northern California. Frustrated by the Mexican refusal to negotiate, Polk, on January 13, 1846, directed Gen. Zachary Taylor's army at Corpus Christi to advance to the Rio Grande. The Mexican government viewed that as an act of war. Eventually, after a series of confrontations and battles, on February 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, through which the United States gained California, Arizona, New Mexico, and the Rio Grande boundary for Texas, as well as portions of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado.
Identifier:
ATF0031b
Item identifier:
ATF0031b
Collection:
Artifacts collection
Date range of creation:
1840 to 1850
Source:
Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 1965/039
Container information:
Artifact Box 0142
Subject:
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Type:
Image
Type:
Eating Vessels
Type:
Plate, Dinner
Medium:
Ceramic (material)
Citation information:
ATF0031b, Artifacts collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Copyright information:
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Size or duration:
10.5 in diameter x 1.5 in height
Language:
French