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Soup Plate, 1736–95, Made in China, Chinese, Porcelain, Diam. 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm), Ceramics, Chinese export porcelain was one of the luxuries deemed essential to a well-appointed eighteenth-century house. Until 1784, when direct trade began between China and America, Chinese porcelain came to the colonies by way of Europe