Dish
Dateca. 1760
OriginAsia, China, Jingdezhen
MediumHard-paste porcelain
DimensionsH: 1 11/16"; Diam: 11"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections Fund
Object number2008-5,3
DescriptionChinese export porcelain dish decorated with a painted design in underglaze cobalt blue. Decoration consists of a pair of peafowl beside a tree in a fenced garden within a spearhead border, the rim with shaped flower, foliate and cell pattern borders.Label TextThis Chinese export porcelain dish with underglaze blue bird and landscape decoration descended in the Beverly family and was used at Blandfield Plantation in Virginia. It bears the same design as a pair of oval dishes (2008-90, 1&2) that were acquired by Colonial Williamsburg. This plate is part of the large dinner service ordered by Robert Beverley of Blandfield Plantation in 1764. In a letter to his London factor, John Bland, Beverley indicated that he would like a "complete set of china, the whole to be sufficient for two genteel courses of victuals. I hope you will be kind enough to choose the China of the most fashionable sort."
ProvenanceOriginally owned by William Beverley of Blandfield Plantation, Essex County, Virginia. Descended through the family and in 2008 ownership was transferred from Rebecca B. Kanis of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina to Colonial Williamsburg.
Exhibition(s)
ca. 1765
ca. 1765
ca. 1760
ca. 1760
1760-1780
ca. 1765
ca. 1765
ca. 1790
1800-1810
1790 - 1791
1730-1745
1810-1820