Mug
Unknown
1736–95 · Porcelain · The American Wing
Chinese export porcelain was one of the luxuries deemed essential to a well-appointed eighteenth-century house. Until 1784, when direct trade began between China and America, Chinese porcelain came to the colonies by way of Europe. This mug descended in the Verplanck family of New York.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1736–95
- Medium
- Porcelain
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of James DeLancey Verplanck and John Bayard Rodgers Verplanck, 1939
