Lot Essay
The Vaughns were great advocates of American independence and friends of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. See Fuchs and Howard, op. cit., p. 70.
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CIRCA 1747-55
Details
A GRISAILLE AND GILT ARMORIAL SOUP PLATE
CIRCA 1747-55
Octagonal, the center based on a bookplate with the arms of Vaughn impaling Hallowell above the motto INPURUDENTIA ET SIMPLICETATE. and the script name Samuel Vaughn, the cavetto with a chain-link band, alternating landscape and bird on branch cartouches at the border
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter, overall
CIRCA 1747-55
Octagonal, the center based on a bookplate with the arms of Vaughn impaling Hallowell above the motto INPURUDENTIA ET SIMPLICETATE. and the script name Samuel Vaughn, the cavetto with a chain-link band, alternating landscape and bird on branch cartouches at the border
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter, overall
Provenance
The Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 324.
Literature
Fuchs and Howard, Made in China, p. 70, no. 32.
Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol. II, p. 486, no. 499.
Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol. II, p. 486, no. 499.
Exhibited
Virginia Museum, 1981-82.
Sotheby's, 1984.
Sotheby's, 1984.
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