Dessert ice plate

Ice Pot and serving dish,
1778-1788,
Porcelain, gilt

Two Ice Pots and serving dish,
1778-1788,
Porcelain, gilt

Two Ice Pots, white and gold icery with lid, and serving dish,
Porcelain, gilt

Status

Not on view

Date1778-1788

Maker Sèvres porcelain factory (French, 1756 - present)

Geography Made - France

Medium/TechniquePorcelain (hard-paste)

DimensionsOverall: 1 in. x 8 1/4 in. x 8 1/4 in. (2.54 cm x 20.96 cm x 20.96 cm)

Credit LineGift: Jess and Grace Pavey Fund, 2019

Object numberW-2843/C

DescriptionFrench porcelain dessert ice plate. Shallow, scalloped-rim form with gilt edge.
Published ReferencesWilliam Armstrong, "Some New Washington Relics. I. From the Collection of Mrs. B.W. Kennon," The Century Magazine 40/1 (May 1890): 20.

Susan Gray Detweiler and Christine Meadows. George Washington's Chinaware. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1982, p. 127.

Markingsunderside marked in over-glazed red with a crown above the royal cipher without date letters and the letter “T,” in the manner of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory of Sevres, France, and with incised “ER” initials.

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