A LARGE PLATTER FROM THE DEWITT CLINTON SERVICE

CIRCA 1796-1810

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A LARGE PLATTER FROM THE DEWITT CLINTON SERVICE
CIRCA 1796-1810
Brightly painted with a famille rose Chinese riverscape, rim with initials DWCMFC and the Eight Immortals
16 7/8 in. (42.8 cm.) wide

Provenance

Dewitt Clinton (1769-1824), Mayor of New York City, Governor of New York state, and Maria Franklin Clinton, who were married in 1796
Mary Clinton Jones (Mrs. David Jones), oldest daugher of Dewitt Clinton.
By descent to Thomas Floyd and Cornelia Haring Jones.
By descent to Fannie Floyd-Jones.
By descent to Gertrude Riker Harrison (her great-grandaughter).
By descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

D.S. Howard called Dewitt Clinton "...a giant in the political life of New York..." (New York and the China Trade, p. 113.) Hailing from an important Anglo-American family with a distinguished record in the Revolution, Clinton was a New York Assemblyman and then U.S. Senator before becoming Mayor and later a Presidential candidate defeated by James Madison. A platter from the collection of Diane and Norman Bernstein, The Lindens, was sold Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 2006, lot 3. A pair of dishes and covers was sold Christie's, New York, 23 January 2007, lot 187 and an oval dish, lot 188.

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