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Warming Plate
c. 182019th Century
1 1/4 in. x 10 3/8 in. x 10 3/8 in.
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
porcelain
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.181
A Chinese export porcelain food warming plate. The plate is octagonal and has a reservoir which can be filled with hot water and used to keep food warm. It is decorated with an underglaze blue pagoda design called the Fitzhugh pattern. Richard Sill Griswold (1809-1849) graduated from Yale in 1829 and went to China as his father's agent in the shipping firm of N.L. & G. Griswold, merchants in the China Trade. He lived in China for several years before returning to America. He built the home called Boxwood in Old Lyme.
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