Covered Tureen and Platter

Arts of the Americas

1800–15

Artist unknown (Chinese, made for the American market)
China

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Chinese export porcelain
Title: Covered Tureen and Platter
Place: China (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1800–1815
Medium: Porcelain, glaze, enamels, and gilding
Inscriptions: "BLP" [initals, script, inside shield]; "E PLURIBUS UNUM" [in banner held in eagle's mouth] [on tureen, lid and surface of platter]
Dimensions: Tureen: 26.7 × 35.6 × 24.8 cm (10 1/2 × 14 × 9 3/4 in.); Platter: 4.8 × 39.7 × 33 cm (1 7/8 × 15 5/8 × 13 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Reference Number: 1929.133.1a-b
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Emily Crane Chadbourne, Chicago, Washington DC, and Stone Ridge, NY (1871-1964; born Emily Crane), by Mar. 18, 1929 [incoming receipt, R4053, Mar. 18, 1929; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1929.

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