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Lot 71

Sale 1226 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Oct 4, 2023 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$3,000 - 5,000
Price Realized
$5,040
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Six Chinese Export Porcelain 'Quaker Farmer' Articles
Circa 1800

comprising a sepia cream pitcher, and three cups and two saucers en grisaille.
Height of creamer 5 1/4 inches.

The Morris family of Philadelphia is believed to have owned several services in this pattern, with known examples in green, sepia, and grisaille. Israel Morris (1778-1870) and his wife Mary Hollingsworth Morris (1776-1820) owned two, and a drawing of this pattern by Mary is held at Dumbarton House in Washington, D.C. See Jean McClure Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade 1785-1835, p. 140, figs. 52-54 for other examples.

Property from the Collection of Mr. R. Neall Distad, Cleveland Heights, Ohio

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