Collection Highlights
Slave shackles
ca. 1866
1921.20
Steel
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Scalloped edge bowl
Object name
Scalloped edge bowl
Date
ca. 1816
Medium
Porcelain with blue underglaze
Dimensions
Overall: 2 1/4 x 9 in. ( 5.7 x 22.9 cm )
Description
Chinese export porcelain scalloped edge bowl with blue "Canton" design; central landscape image includes water, pagodas and bridge surrounded by decorative border. Interior top edge of scallop border decorated with rope band and diaper-pattern surmounting border of swag-like motif. Exterior of bowl decorated with three floral sprays on white ground.
Credit Line
Gift of Barbara Parker Chasis, Descendant of Gerrit Huybert Van Wagenen (1753-1835)
Object Number
2004.30.7
Gallery Label
This bowl is part of a 107 piece service of Chinese export porcelain purchased by the donor's great-great grandfather, Gerrit Huybert Van Wagenen (1753-1835), a hardware merchant at Beekman Slip in New York City. Gerrit purchased the service in 1816 for a dinner held for "all the Episcopal clergymen of New York except one." The N-YHS collection includes eight pieces of this service.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
