Unknown Chinese
Soup Plate

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Maker Unknown Chinese

CultureChinese

Titles

Soup Plate

Datec. 1786

Made inChina , Asia

MediumHard-paste porcelain with enamel and gilding

Dimensions1 3/4 × 9 in. diameter (4.4 × 22.9 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase

Object numberB.96.1

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Ceramics Study Room

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

CERAMICS

DescriptionThis plate is from a service owned by Salem, Massachusetts, merchant Elias Hasket Derby, whose ship Grand Turk was the first from New England to sail to China after the United States began direct trade with that nation in 1785. During the Revolutionary War, ships in Derby’s fleet acted as privateers. At the war’s end, he was well positioned and equipped to take advantage of the new trading opportunities with China.
Provenance[Dale Freedman Chinese Export Porcelain, Mayland, Massachusetts]; purchased by MFAH, 1996.

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