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Plate

Dateca. 1755

OriginAsia, China, Jingdezhen

MediumHard -paste porcelain

DimensionsDiameter: 9 in.

Credit LineGift of William Goode Beville

Object number2018-246

DescriptionPlate: circular hard-paste porcelain plate decorated in underglaze blue with a leafy pineapple between a branch of cloves and a branch of nutmeg; the rim painted with a narrow border of stylized clouds.Label TextThe design found on this dish is taken from Pierre Pomet's "A Compleat History of Drugs," London, 1712, after the original drawings from the French version "Histoire Generale des Drogues" published in Paris in 1694.

A fragment of a plate decorated with this motif was recovered archaeologically in Williamsburg, VIrginia, at the site of the Raleigh Tavern.ProvenanceFrom the collection of William Goode Beville (Petersburg, Virginia) and received by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, Virginia) in 2018 as part of a bequest. It remains in the CWF collection to the present.