Porcelain dinnerware

Metadata

Title

Porcelain dinnerware

Date

1800 (circa) - 1811 (circa)

Description

Several pieces of this white porcelain dinner service with overglaze of polychrome decoration have survived with a tradition that they were acquired at the "Point Breeze" sale. They are of the correct period and of a handsome and serviceable type that might have been regularly used in such a house. (Matching bowl is 1979.15.01.)

Extent

Ten dinner plates: 9.5" diameter; nine luncheon plates: 7.5" diameter

Medium

Porcelain

Provenance

Gift of Mrs. C. Buck Churchman

Collection

Bonaparte Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

Identifier

1983.06.01-19