Platter Maker: Unknown

ca. 1800

American Decorative Arts

Not on view
Medium

Porcelain

Dimensions

14 1/4 × 11 5/8 in. (36.2 × 29.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Eleanor & Miss Isabel Ferris

Accession Number

1952.23.1

Geography

Made in China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Ch'ing dynasty, 19th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Augusta Dwight Ferris (née Augusta Moore Dwight, 1840–1908), Brooklyn, N.Y., then Lakewood, N.J. [see note 1]; by descent to her daughters Eleanor Augusta Ferris (1872–1960) and Isabel Stuart Ferris (1879–1970), Bronxville, N.Y., 1908; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1952

Note 1: The platter has a history of ownership in the Dwight family. Augusta Dwight Ferris was the daughter of Theodore Dwight (1796–1866, YC 1814) and great-niece of Timothy Dwight (1752–1817, YC 1769), the eighth president of Yale College (1795–1815).
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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