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55. Plate. Chinese (American market), ca. I785-90. Hard paste.
Diam. 6I/4 in. (I5.9 cm). Gift of Ginsburg and Levy Inc., I956
(56.68)

was
Part of a much larger service, this smallpuddingplate madefor
Elias Boudinot (I74o0-821) ofNew Jersey. Itfeatures the Boudinot
armorial within afloral border. Boudinot is not known to have had
he was afriend of George
any direct ties to the China trade, although
and had been an American
Washingtons Revolutionary leader. A lawyer
he had a
as New
career,
:byprofession, distinguishedpolitical serving
to the Continental
Jersey delegate Congressfrom to and again
1777 i778
from i781 to 1784; he was itspresident 1782 and 1783. Afamily tradi-
in
tion maintains that the service with the Boudinot arms was commis-
at Boudinot's
sionedfor entertaining house in Philadelphia while he was
president of the Continental Congress and that he later moved the service
where he
to Boxwood Hall, his home outside New Jersey,
ofElizabeth,
hosted on the way to his inauguration.
Washington

56. Jug. Chinese (American market), I8oo-I8I5.
Hard paste. H. with cover io in. (25.4 cm). Harris
Brisbane Dick Fund, I934 (34.74a, b)

The initials ET in gold under the spout of thisjug are
those of Edward Tilghman (z75o-z8i5), aprominent
lawyer in Philadelphia. One ofa pair, the jug was given
to Tilghman by his uncle Chew Wilcocks,
Benjamin
originally ordered
active in business in Canton. Wilcocks
fourjugs similarly decorated withportrait busts of
in
In addition to Tilghman's
George Washington grisaille.
pair, he had one inscribed with his own initials, BCW,
and thefourth with the cipher CI, presumablyfor
Charles Ingersoll, afriend of Wilcockss.
Theportrait
was
of Washington faithfully copiedfrom an engraving
by David Edwin (z776-1841), who was working in
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