Dinner Plate
Chinese export porcelain (China)
1796–1810
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain, glaze, with enamels in colors, and gilding
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 22.3 cm (8 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- China
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Bequest of Frederick S. Colburn
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This plate was part of a large service made for the 1796 wedding of New York politician DeWitt Clinton (1769–1828) and his bride, Maria Franklin (1775–1818). The decorative Chinese landscape is encircled by a spearhead border and depictions of the eight Chinese Immortals of the Taoist religion, a purely Chinese decoration. Only the entwined gold initials DWMC indicate that this plate was made for a foreign market.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
