Minneapolis Institute of Art

Dessert plate with arms of Morgan

China

Date

c. 1785

Medium

Porcelain

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The service to which this dessert plate belongs was commissioned for John Morgan of Hartford, Connecticut. Brought back on the [i]Empress of China[i] in 1785, the service was among the earliest customized for an American. By 1784, when America began trading with China as an independent nation, armorial porcelain had already fallen out of fashion with Europeans. Asia

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