Art Institute of Chicago
Plate
China (for the American market)
- Date
- c. 1785
- Medium
- Porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Applied Arts of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
The center of this plate depicts a fanciful figure of Fame with the emblem of the Society of the Cincinnati, a group founded in the wake of the American Revolution to preserve rights and liberties. Originally enhanced with gilt decoration, the blue-and-white underglaze border, known as the Fitzhugh pattern, incorporates flowers, butterflies, and Chinese decorative motifs. George Washington, the society’s first president, and Colonel Henry Lee, a Revolutionary War cavalry officer, both owned extensive dinner services in this pattern.
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- Object type
- AAT300386308
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