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Dolly Madison Presided at Princeton's Faculty Table
Inasmuch as George Washington was a resident of Nassau Hall, and President
Madison was once the head of the university, with his famous wife, Dolly Madison,
presiding over the faculty table, it was hoped that some china used by these celebrities
could be secured for the basis of the design for the Princeton University plates.
Diligent search, however, proved fruitless. We therefore adapted a border from the
armorial series of plates by Mayer. This series pictured, within a typical Staffordshire
border, the arms of the American colonies. Examples of the Mayer armorial series are
rare and bring high prices when offered for sale in the auction rooms. The New Jersey
plate was among the most famous of this series, so this century-old design was adopted
for the basis of the Princeton plates. Mayer was one of the few potters to put his title
on the front of the plate; hence the inclusion of the word "Princeton" in the secondary
border, in the style of the original armorial plates."
From "Commemorative Plates by
Wedgwood", a pamphlet published in 1931 by Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, the major US china importer
of the time, based in Boston.
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