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36. Plate. Chinese (Portuguese market), ca. I820. ;
Hard paste. Diam. 93/4 in. (24.8 cm). Helena
Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of Winfield

Foundation, I95I (51.86.328)

With Macao as a continuing basefor trade, the
market was active well into the nineteenth
Portuguese
century. The coat arms here is that of Francisco
of
Antonio da Silva Mendes da Fonseca (d. i83I), a
government official, merchant, and landowner.

37. Salad Bowl. Chinese (Portuguese colonial
market), ca. i8oo. Hard paste. H. 43/4 in. (12.1 cm).
Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of
Winfield Foundation, I95I (51.86.Io)

The origin of the model is an English creamware
in
or Yorkshire about
bowlproduced Staffordshire
in the
i78o-i8oo; its currency export trade is evidenced
colonial market,
by thispiece, madefor the Portuguese
and by anotherformingpart of a Danish-market
service made about i800.
The bowl comesfrom one three services madefor
of
Dom Bernardo Jose Maria da Silveira e Lorena
(1756-1818), governor and viceroy oflndiafrom i806
to 1816.

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Salad bowl, detail ofSilveira arms

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