Newsnote: “Vincentiana Purchase of the week: 10/31/2014

 

This week’s featured purchase for the Vincentiana Collection at Archives and Special Collections of DePaul University is another mid-19th century transferware plate commemorating the Daughters of Charity. This plate features the sisters’ battlefield nursing during the Crimean War in the famous Siege of Sebastapol in 1854-1855. The edges of the plate commemorate the national coats-of-arms for the combatant nations.