A RARE AMERICAN MARKET PUCE SHIPPING CUP AND SAUCER

LATE 18TH CENTURY

Details

A RARE AMERICAN MARKET PUCE SHIPPING CUP AND SAUCER
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Each piece with a ship under full sail flying the American flag
5 5/8 inches (14.2 cm) diameter, the saucer (2)

Provenance

With J A Lloyd Hyde, New York City
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 1984, lot 146

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Lot Essay

Beginning probably when Elias Haskett Derby's Grand Turk was painted inside a magnificent punchbowl in 1786, ships of the new nation were portrayed on Chinese export porcelain, but this puce tea and coffee service - certainly a special order - is apparently unrecorded.

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