This Chinese export porcelain dish with underglaze blue bird and landscape decoration descended in the Beverly family and was used at Blandfield Plantation in Virginia. It bears the same design as a pair of oval dishes (2008-90, 1&2) that were acquired by Colonial Williamsburg. This plate is part of the large dinner service ordered by Robert Beverley of Blandfield Plantation in 1764. In a letter to his London factor, John Bland, Beverley indicated that he would like a "complete set of china, the whole to be sufficient for two genteel courses of victuals. I hope you will be kind enough to choose the China of the most fashionable sort."
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Details
- Title: Dish
- Date Created: ca. 1760
- Location Created: Asia, China, Jingdezhen
- Physical Dimensions: H: 1 11/16"; Diam: 11"
- Type: Dish
- Rights: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Museum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections Fund.
- External Link: Learn more about this object at Colonial Williamsburg's emuseum
- Medium: Hard-paste porcelain
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