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Culture:Chinese
Title:plate
Date Made:1755-1765
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: hard paste porcelain, overglaze polychrome enamels, gilding
Place Made:China
Measurements:overall: 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.; 15.875 cm
Accession Number:  HD 90.080
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. Henry N. Flynt, Jr.
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Chinese export porcelain octagonal plate decorated in pink, orange, green, blue, yellow, and gilding. The well is decorated with a rococo cartouche surmounted by a heraldic creat of a wyvern, and the gilt script cypher "JB" in the cartouche. The rim has alternating large and small floral sprays, and a band of linked chain and quadrefoils around the inner edge.

Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain

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