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Soup Plate

Dateca. 1770

OriginAsia, China, Jingdezhen

MediumHard-paste porcelain

DimensionsOH: 1 5/8"; OD: 9 1/4".

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

Object number2024-69

DescriptionSoup Plate: circular soup plate with deep bowl and foot ring; the broad everted rim painted with a border of six c-scroll reserves containing a pink diaper ground alternating with purple wavy line reserves containing stylized leafy pink and green flower blossoms; the well painted in pink, purple, green, and orange with a central peony and other flower blossom cluster surrounded by six leafy flower sprigs.
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.