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.
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