# Dinner Plate

- By: Chinese export porcelain (China)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Bequest of Frederick S. Colburn
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/7896)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/7597e412-18c9-0e33-0202-79f808cd43c3/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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