Vegetable Dish Yale University Art Gallery

1800–1805

Medium: Porcelain
Dimensions: Bowl: 9 × 11 1/4 in. (22.86 × 28.58 cm)
Lid: 8 × 10 in. (20.32 × 25.4 cm)
Credit Line: de Lancey Kountze Collection, Gift of de Lancey Kountze, B.A. 1899
Accession Number: 1939.81
Geography: Made in Jingdezhen, China
Culture: Chinese
Period: 19th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Joseph Sims (1760–1851) and Rebecca Sims (née Rebecca Heath, 1769–1830), Philadelphia, Pa., by 1830 [see note 1]. William de Lancey Kountze (1878–1946), New York, by 1939; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1939

Note 1: George Washington (1732–1799) is listed as the honorand of this work.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

porcelain, utilitarian objects, vegetable dishes

Subject

eagles, floral, lotus, monogram, scalloping, tomb, willow

Inscriptions

Painted: "WASHINGTON" on tomb motif; "JRS" monogram

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