A 'QUAKER FARMER' TEABOWL AND SAUCER
A 'QUAKER FARMER' TEABOWL AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1810

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A 'QUAKER FARMER' TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Circa 1810
Finely painted in grisaille with the farmer standing in a field leaning against his bull, a dog at his feet and sheep dozing nearby, a series of narrow neoclassical borders
5 1/8in. (13cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Several services with this design were made for Philadelphia families. The Quaker girl Mary Hollingsworh 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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