You'll hear the familiar cry of JE SUX when you see this Vintage J.E. College Dining Hall Plate in great condition!
Over the top Gothic Graphics celebrate the life and service of Jonathan Edwards with silhouette graphics suited for the true JE Spider alumni!
Below one spiderweb is an open Bible with the Latin wording “VET NOV TESTAMENTUM” (Old and New Testaments) The popular phrase is well known as part of Princeton University's Shield, a school which JE would become president of.
Below the opposite spiderweb resides a well known part of the Yale Seal since the 1700s. The Hebrew words " URIM v THUMMIM ", appear on an open book. One translation of these symbols is " Lights and Perfection".
Gently used condition with colors nice and bright. No damage to the graphics, no chips, no crazing. A few light utensil marks seen in the well of the plate.
Plate measures just shy of 9" Diameter.
This sturdy resturantware diner style plate was made in America by the Syracuse China.
Jonathan Edwards, a 1720 Yale alumnus, was a well known theologian and child prodigy, accepted to Yale at 13 he went on to become one of the most celebrated theologians of his era.
The gothic images seen in the design seem to come straight out of his famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
There is a terrific portrait of JE and a silhouette of a Native American man, perhaps of the Mohawks, meant to acknowledge his years of Mission work with indigenous peoples of the Connecticut River Valley, in New Haven that would include the Quinnipiac people.
Along with spiderwebs and portraits you will find a winged devil opposed across the plate by a winged angel and all is framed with hourglasses, scythes and flowing shafts of wheat. Fitting for the JE Elizabethan Gothic banquet hall it once served in and in the schools' colors of Green and White!
Perfect for the new graduate or your favorite Yale alumni.
Thanks for looking!