English & European Ceramics & Glass - 13 Sep 2011
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A blue and white pearlware plate 19th century, depicting Mary C Henderson's print The City and the Theatre, showing the Park Theatre in New York, within a wide oak leaf border, printed title to the reverse, 25.2cm.
The Park Theatre was owned by the Astor family from 1805, but was destroyed by fire in 1848 and never rebuilt.