Porcelain dinnerware
Metadata
Title
Porcelain dinnerware
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.)
Date
1800 (circa) - 1811 (circa)
Identifier
1983.06.01-19
Extent
Ten dinner plates: 9.5" diameter; nine luncheon plates: 7.5" diameter
Medium
Porcelain
Is Part Of
Bonaparte Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. C. Buck Churchman
Collection
Citation
“Porcelain dinnerware,” Bonaparte Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Joseph Bonaparte in America, accessed December 13, 2024, https://www.josephbonaparteinamerica.org/items/show/17.