Title
Plate
Creator
Made in Jingdezhen, China
Date
1573-1610
Label
#5
Plate
Made in Jingdezhen, China, 1573-1610
Made of Hard-Paste Porcelain
Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by Herbert G. McKay
2018.45.1
This plate, decorated with two deer set against a stylized flowering plum tree, matches what may be the earliest piece of Chinese porcelain to come to Virginia, a plate that was broken and thrown away in Jamestown, Virginia, in the summer of 1610.
Though a frontier settlement, Jamestown was tied into new global trade networks that connected Asia, Europe and the Americas. In Jamestown, the plate would have been used to serve food and, perhaps more importantly, as an exotic status symbol that would have identified its owner as rich, cosmopolitan and connected to the new world of global exploration and trade.
This piece is on display in the Chinese Export Gallery.
Plate
Made in Jingdezhen, China, 1573-1610
Made of Hard-Paste Porcelain
Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by Herbert G. McKay
2018.45.1
This plate, decorated with two deer set against a stylized flowering plum tree, matches what may be the earliest piece of Chinese porcelain to come to Virginia, a plate that was broken and thrown away in Jamestown, Virginia, in the summer of 1610.
Though a frontier settlement, Jamestown was tied into new global trade networks that connected Asia, Europe and the Americas. In Jamestown, the plate would have been used to serve food and, perhaps more importantly, as an exotic status symbol that would have identified its owner as rich, cosmopolitan and connected to the new world of global exploration and trade.
This piece is on display in the Chinese Export Gallery.
Credit Line
Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by Herbert G. McKay
Citation
Made in Jingdezhen, China, “Plate,” Museums at Washington and Lee University: Online Exhibits, accessed May 19, 2024, https://exhibits-museums.omeka.wlu.edu/items/show/258.