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Breakfast Plate

Made during the Reagan administration for a breakfast of the living First Ladies

Made in Trenton, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

1984

Designed by Set C. Momjian, American, born 1930. Made by Lenox Incorporated, Trenton, New Jersey, 1889 - present.

Porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
Diameter: 10 9/16 inches (26.8 cm)

Currently not on view

2006-4-258

Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection, 2006

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  • PublicationAmerican Presidential China: The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

    Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
    President, 1981-89

    During the Reagan administration, President and Mrs. Ford sponsored a breakfast for the living First Ladies. Set C. Momjian designed a special plate with red and gold borders and signatures of the First Ladies on the reverse. The plates were made by Lenox in 1984. Susan Gray Detweiler, from American Presidential China: The Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2008), p. 87.