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service is
38. Plate. Chinese (American market), ca. I765. Hard paste. The overglaze foral decoration on the Verplanck entirely
Diam. I37/8 in. (35.2 cm). Gift of James DeLancey Verplanck European. Were it notfor its unbrokenfamily history, the close relation-
ship of design porcelain suggest
and John Bayard Rodgers Verplanck, I939 (39.I84.22) the to that on Meissen would that it had
been madefor the German or Scandinavian market. The ownership by
is well
Samuel andJudith (nee Crommelin) Verplanck acknowledged,
however; the service was presumably orderedfor their house at3 Wall
Street, New York, where they livedfrom i763 until 1803.
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