President Wilson’s personally-owned Wedgwood Queen's Ware Liberty China plate. Plate measures 8″ in diameter, The pattern, designed by Mrs. Lillian Taylor, contains the shield of the United States flanked by the flags of 11 Allied nations. Reverse bears several impressed markings. In fine condition. These pieces were a private order and were never advertised or sold to the public. Select clientele who ordered and received Liberty China included President Woodrow Wilson, former President Theodore Roosevelt, and Great Britain’s King George V and Queen Mary. Such a plate is illustrated in American Presidential China, a book featuring the well-known collection of Robert McNeil. The McNeil Collection has since been donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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