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A Group Of Six Chinese Export Porcelain Items Decorated With An Emblazoned Eagle
Estimate: $1,000-$1,500
Sold
$750
Live Auction
American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
Description
A Group Of Six Chinese Export Porcelain Items Decorated With An Emblazoned Eagle
Circa 1800
including a mug and covered sugar bowl decorated with the Great Seal of the United States; a lighthouse-form coffeepot and plate decorated with eagle and shield bearing initials, a teabowl and saucer with eagle bearing initials; and a shallow bowl decorated with eagle with open shield.
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Height 9 inches (coffeepot).
Provenance
Provenance:Spoon stand: James Galley,Plate (eagle with initials and gilt grape leaf border): Elinor Gordon, Villanova, Pennsylvania,Property of a Mid-Atlantic Institution.Note:The tea bowl and saucer bearing the initials "JF" is thought to have been from the service of John Brown Francis (1791-1864) of Rhode Island.