Plate
This Chinese export porcelain plate is part of an extensive dinner service which likely belonged to Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee, great-granddaughter of Martha Washington and wife of General Robert E. Lee. It features the “Canton” landscape, the most common pattern on blue-and-white porcelain shipped to America in the nineteenth century. By the time this plate was deposited with the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association in 1935, the Lee family porcelains and the Washington-owned pieces they inherited had become commingled and had lost their identities.
Pattern Name: Canton
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