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Saucer
1770-1780
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
2010.0008.209 B
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Wilhelmina Laird Craven
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Object Number
2010.0008.209 B
Object Name
Saucer
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Date
1770-1780
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: "Scarce two-/handled Cup//Saucer, 4 7/8"/Std. patrn./Saucer Repair/ c1760-1770, $600." in black print
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: "Glass Cab./ in Foyer/ Middle Shelf" in black type
Mark/Signature: No
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Enameled
- Gilded
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
0.866 (H) x 4.961 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
2.2 (H) x 12.6 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Howard, David Sanctuary. 1994 The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated from the Hodroff Collection.
• Very similar two-handled cups and saucers: p. 184, no. 211, Qianlong, c. 1775, noting pattern probably after Indian textile designs.Book: Detweiler, Susan Gray. 1982 George Washington's Chinaware.
• Export tobacco leaf lid with Washington association: p. 41, no. 24, one of two tureen lids associated with label "belonged to Mrs. Daniel Parke Custis (nee Dandridge afterwards Mrs. Washington"..Book: Jorg, Christian J.A. 1989 Chinese export porcelain: chine de commande from the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels. 303 p.
• Color palette and design for Tobacco leaf decoration: pp. 73, 115Book: Palmer, Arlene. 1976 A Winterthur Guide to Chinese Export Porcelain.
• Tobacco leaf decoration: p. 104Book: Nadler, Daniel. 2001 China to Order: Focusing on the XIXth Century and Surveying Polychrome Export Porcelain, Produced During the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1908.
• Tobacco leaf pattern plate: p. 68, fig. 36.Book: Emerson, Julie, et al. 2000 Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe.
• Early tobacco leaf tureen and stand: p. 260, pl. 16.8Book: Sargent, William R. 2012 Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics at the Peabody Essex Museum.
• Oval dish in same "tobacco leaf" pattern, only retaining its underglaze blue decoration: p. 151, no. 57, c. 1795Book: Fennimore, Donald L., et al. 1992 The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Volume IV Decorative Arts.
• Assembled dinner service with generally similar ornament: pp. 230-31, no. 240Book: Veiga, Jorge Getulio. 1989 Chinese Export Porcelain in Private Brazilian Collections.
• Similarly detailed pattern on Brazilian Market service: pp. 260-61, pls. 238-39, service owned c. 1800 by Caetano Pinto de Montenegro, 1st Baron, Viscount and Marquess de Vila Real de Praia Grande.Book: Lee, Jean Gordon. 1984 Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844. 193.
• Blue Fitzhugh service with Philadelphia history of ownership: pp. 168, 170, no. 172, owned by merchant Henry David Mandeville (1787–1878) and his wife Charlotte Stott Mandeville (1787–1835).