An elegant 7 3/4″ Chinese export porcelain plate from one of several services made for the very wealthy and prominent Chew family of Philadelphia, this particular service centered with a roundel bearing the initial C within a gilded eight-pointed star and refined gilded spearhead and lattice work borders – typical of the spare aesthetic of the Federal period.  The Chew family country house, Cliveden is now part of the National Trust of Historic Preservation.  Illustrated in Schiffer’s China for America, page 29.  Ex- Phil Dubey Collection.  $2,200.00.