Soup Plate

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
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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