A SIDE PLATE FROM THE CHEW WILCOCKS SERVICE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SIDE PLATE FROM THE CHEW WILCOCKS SERVICE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With the demi-lion crest in the center within a peach, sepia amd gilt neoclassical border repeated on the rim
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam.

拍品專文

Benjamin Chew Wilcocks of Philadelphia (1776-1845) was in the early decades of the 19th century American Consul at Canton and kept a home at Macao. J.G. Lee illustrates pieces from this service in Philadelphians and the China Trade, p. 49. Wilcocks also ordered the famous toddy jugs painted with the Gilbert Stuart image of George Washington (one in the collection of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum).