Gravy Dish and Plate
c. 1820
19th Century
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 McCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.180.a&b
A Chinese export porcelain gravy dish and plate. The plate is leaf shaped and is 7 3/8" in length. The matching dish has a loop handle and is 7 1/2" in length. It is decorated with a variation of the Willow pattern. This type of porcelain is called Canton in reference to the port in China from which it was shipped.