A Group Of Four English Transfer-Printed Creamware And Pearlware Articles With Masonic Decoration

Late 18th / Early 19th Century

for the American market; comprising two lidded teapots, a handled mug, and a serving bowl.

Height 6 inches (tallest).

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

Property from the Estate of Dr. Caroline W. Brown, Lombard, Illinois.

Note:

The smaller teapot bearing paper label 'E.N. Stretton Collection' to underside.

bowl: with repaired breaks along edge, with some retouching that has darkened over time, the underside rim with some old chips, the inner well with wear to decoration, some occasional crackling to glaze; mug: with a large repaired break along side, and a few stabilized cracks, hairline crack to underside, with some selective retouching present, small knicks to base and a small chip to upper terminal of handle; teapot with pink border: the lid has been restored, with repaired break and overpainting evident, with a few visible hairlines and fleabites along edges, the teapot with some chipping to tip of spout, and old chipping to base rim; Wedgwood teapot: with a few old hairlines throughout body, scattered crazing, the tip of spout with restoration and overpainting evident, the interior of rim with area of restoration / overpainting, the lid has been restored with repaired breaks, the overpainting has yellowed over time, some occasional fleabites along rim of teapot and lid

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Lynda Cain serves as a Vice President of Freeman's and is the Head of Department for American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts.
She specializes in American furniture and decorative arts, Native American art, American folk art, and Pennsylvania furniture and decorative arts.
Cain joined Freeman's in 2001 as the company's first American furniture and decorative arts specialist. She began her career in American Decorative Arts as assistant curator at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1984 she became curator of costume at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1986, she relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts and switched from museum work when she joined the American Furniture and Decorative Art Department at Skinner Inc., Bolton and Boston, Massachusetts. Before leaving New England in 1997, she had the great pleasure of directing the cataloguing project of the Folk Art Collection of Nine Fletcher and Bertram K. Little at Cogswell’s Grant, Essex, Massachusetts for the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England. Ms. Cain joined the cast of the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow in Season 19.
Growing up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she was greatly influenced by the rich collections of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts held by Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. She notes her good fortune of working in our two great “attic states:” Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Each Commonwealth has tremendous inventory of historic material, great institutions, and citizens who treasure their inherited and collected items. Cain appears on the television Antiques Roadshow as an appraiser of decorative and folk arts.

Collect: Americana

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