Pair of Soup Plates

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Maker Unknown Chinese

CultureChinese

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Pair of Soup Plates

Datec. 1747

Made inChina , Asia

MediumHard-paste porcelain with enamel and gilding

DimensionsOverall (.1): 7/8 × 8 5/8 in. diameter (2.2 × 21.9 cm)
Overall (.2): 1 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. diameter (3.8 × 22.2 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of the Wunsch Americana Foundation

Object numberB.77.15.1,.2

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Bayou Bend

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DescriptionIn the 1700s, thousands of dinner services with images of people’s coats of arms were being sent to China to be copied and shipped back to Europe and North America. Samuel Vaughan (1720–1802), a London merchant and Jamaican sugar plantation owner, ordered a dinner service shortly after his marriage to Sarah Hallowell (1727–1809) of Boston in 1747. The two soup plates originated from this dinner service and bears both their coat of arms, which the Chinese painters likely copied after an engraved bookplate.
ProvenanceSamuel Vaughan (1720–1802); [...]; Wunsch Americana Foundation, New York; given to MFAH,1976.

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