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Plate

Dateca. 1770

OriginAsia, China, Jingdezhen

MediumHard-paste porcelain

DimensionsOH: 1 1/16"; OD: 9".

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Edna G. Tucker and Ms. Wendy S. Tucker in memory of Edward Bolton (Teddy) Tucker, M.B.E.

Object number2024-66

DescriptionPlate: circular plate with inset foot ring; the broad everted rim painted with a pink diaper or scale border within wavy iron red band and a pink shell-edge inner border evenly interrupted by four red and gilt leafy scrolls; the cavetto with concentric bands of iron red and inward pointing red and gilt spearhead border; the well painted in purple, pink, red, and green with a large with a large central flower cluster with an iron red bow, surrounded by six smaller flower clusters.
ProvenanceDescended in the Tucker families of New York and Bermuda. Passed down to Catharine Fitch Tucker [February 28, 1879-August 22, 1970] of Paget, Bermuda, who gifted the piece to her nephew, Edward Bolton (Teddy) Tucker, MBE [May 8, 1929-June 9, 2014]; it then descended to his daughter Wendy Susan Tucker who subsequently gifted it to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 2024.