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Culture:Chinese
Title:plate
Date Made:1790-1810
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: hard paste porcelain, overglaze polychrome enamels, underglaze cobalt enamel, gilding
Place Made:China
Measurements:overall: 7 1/2 in.; 19.05 cm
Accession Number:  HD 62.015.2
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of two Chinese export porcelain plates with a rim of alternating hand-cut, pierced slits (or latticework) of Chinese design. According to Clare Le Corbeiller, this type of pierced decoration was out of fashion by 1810. Decorated in green, blue, yellow, rose, iron-red, black and gilding, the center well has a pseudo-coat of arms with a central iron-red and gilt monogram, "TSS" (maybe the Sears family of Boston), in a shield suspended from a rose bowknot within chartreuse and gilt mantling. These shields are typical of the pseudo-armorial devices on Chinese export porcelain made for the American market at the beginning of the 19th century. The rim has a band of diagonal green leaf garlands and floral sprigs. See also basket and stand (HD 60.273.1-.2).

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

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