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Chinese export porcelain

Coffee Pot with Lid

1790–1800
Hard-paste porcelain, enamels, gilding
20.6 × 12.4 cm (8.1 × 4.9 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

This coffee pot, decorated with an American sailing vessel, is among the many examples of souvenir ware that captains and trade merchants special ordered from the porcelain shops in Canton to commemorate their journeys. The decoration on these pieces is of a more personal character than the average stock porcelain. Motifs for commemorative ware were most often copied from illustrations on mercantile and cargo documentation and thus probably bore little resemblance to the actual vessels.

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