Chinese Export Porcelain Plate, Arms of Morgan, John Morgan Service

Artist Maker: Unknown

Object Date: circa 1784

Object Type: Plate

Object Description: American market Chinese Export porcelain plate centered with a gilded shield with the Arms of Morgan, inscribed "Morgan" beneath the shield above crossed branches of laurel, the shield surmounted with a winged horse crest, the cavetto and rim bordered in overglaze blue enamel with gilded detail. From one of the earliest special order dinner services commissioned for the American market, ordered by John Morgan of Hartford, CT, carried back from Canton on the Empress of China by Morgan's nephew who was the ship's carpenter

Imperial Dims: dia: 7 1/2 in.

Material: Hard-paste porcelain with overglaze enameling

Credit Line: Naomi Wood Trust Purchase, 2020.

Inventory Number: KR.34