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Covered Dish
c. 183019th 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, the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.240.a&b
A Chinese export porcelain covered dish in the green "Fitzhugh" pattern. It has a central medallion with the initial "G" which stands for Griswold. This dish was part of a set made for the Griswold family and brought back from China in the 1830s. 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.