Charleston Loan Exhibition

45 Cup and saucer Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing Period China, ca. 1820 Porcelain with enameled decoration Cup: H. 3 x Diam. 4¼ inches; Saucer, H. 1 ‹/* x Diam. 5 inches Lent by The Charleston Museum, Charleston, SC, 1995.2.2, 1995.2.1 Between 1817 and 1823 Charles Izard Manigault (1795–1874) traveled as a merchant to such far-flung places as China, India, Australia and parts of South America. In 1820, while in Canton, Manigault ordered a 381-piece dinner service “with Arms & crest Painted Brown.” Canton enamellers reproduced the brown-Fitzhugh pattern and copied the coat-of-arms from Manigault’s engraved bookplate. Plate Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period China, ca. 1740 Porcelain with overglaze, polychrome floral designs with gilding in the famille rose pattern H. ⁄fi/!^ x Diam. 8 ⁄‹/!^ , Diam. 5 (foot) inches Lent by Drayton Hall, a historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, NT 2009.6.8 While celebrated for its extant architecture, Drayton Hall’s surviving furniture, metal objects, ceramics, and glassware equally exhibit the manners in which Lowcountry planters broadcast their prosperity, level of refinement and attention to contemporary European fashion. Of the ceramics linked to John Drayton (1715–1779), the first owner of Drayton Hall and one of Charleston’s most successful eighteenth-century planters, Chinese export porcelain is predominant. Archaeological excavations, for instance, have successfully uncovered the remains of garniture sets, tea services and several sets of plates in both the famille rose and Imari patterns. Above-ground survivors include a rare collection of plates, one of which is seen here, decorated in the famille rose pattern using overglaze polychrome floral designs and gilding. Dated to the 1740s, the plates passed through eight generations of the Drayton family prior to its donation to Drayton Hall in 2009. CH, BSC, JGL, KS