Description:
One of a set of four Chinese export porcelain plates decorated in the Famille rose palette in pink, green, blue, yellow and gilding, with three scattered floral bouquets over the white surface and a gilt spearhead border on the rim. These plates were originally from the Verplanck family - Samuel and Judith (nee Crommelin) Verplanck; the service was presumably ordered for their house at 3 Wall Street, New York, where they lived from 1763 until 1803. These plates were deaccessioned from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and were sold to Historic Deerfield through the dealers, Good and Hutchinson. The floral decoration on the Verplanck service is entirely European in taste. Were it not for its unbroken family history, the close relationship of the design to that on Meissen porcelain would suggest that it had been made for the German or Scandinavian market. Each plate is cracked.
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