Dish

Object/Artifact

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Dish

Entry/Object ID

VC.59.34

Description

Plate, round, 9-lobed: blue painted decoration; each lobe bordered with diapered and starred band, within which, floral spray; at center, scene with figures set on point of land in large body of water; two half-nude children, prone semi-nude figure with arm in water, two semi-nude women, apparently all natives, being assisted by two clothed white women, seemingly missionaries performing baptismal ceremony; two seated figures in background.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Maker

Date made

1760 - 1770

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Diameter

11 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 11 in. (27.9 cm)

Material

Porcelain (hard-paste)

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Note: According to David Howard, Chinese Export Porcelain scholar, the scene represents a French family shipwrecked in Tahiti. The scene was copied from an illustration in a travel book. The lotus shape of the plate was popular during the 1760s (2/80). Miscellaneous: If baptismal ceremony, curious representation.

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Van Cortlandt Manor, Dining Room