A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN SEPIA AND GILT 'QUAKER FARMER' TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS

CIRCA 1810

Details

A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN SEPIA AND GILT 'QUAKER FARMER' TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS
CIRCA 1810
5 ½ in. diameter, the saucers

Provenance

Elinor Gordon, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1989

Sale Room Notice

Please note this lot will be offered without a reserve.

Lot Essay

Several services with this design were made for Philadelphia families. The Quaker girl Mary Hollingsworth Morris had sketched the scene, probably after a Dutch engraving, in her journal, which survives at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. See J.G. Lee, Philadelphians and the China Trade, p. 73.

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