Platter
- Object Name:
- Platter
- Object ID:
- 1938.011
- Place of Origin:
- China
- Date:
- circa 1750
- Description:
- Platter. Porcelain. Round with flaring wide rim, with foot. Decorated in underglaze blue with single band of gold/brown at edge of rim. Central decoration includes a central design surrounded with a band of cross-hatched diamonds; similar, but narrower band at edge of rim. Central design includes an oriental house, water, rocks, flowering shrub, and two rabbit-like animals. Label on bottom with donor information.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Porcelain - Dimensions:
- H-1.5 Dia-12.6 inches
- Provenance:
- Donor stated that the "platter" was brought from England in 1630 by his ancestor, Robert Hazen. It passed to Hazen's great-grand daughter Priscilla Hazen (1698-1782), to her son, Deacon John Kimball (1738/9-1817), to his son Benjamin Kimball Jr. (1771-1818), to his daughter Mary Ann Roby (1807-1875) to her daughter Lucy Maria Bradley (1833-1912) to her nephew Harley Benjamin Roby (1866-1915), spouse of donor.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Jennie D. Roby
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