THREE UNUSUAL AMERICAN MARKET SHAPED OVAL DISHES

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THREE UNUSUAL AMERICAN MARKET SHAPED OVAL DISHES
CIRCA 1810

Each painted with a roundel of different sprigs or sprays of flowers, some with insects, the lobed rims with various blossoming vine borders (each with a crack at one end)--9½inb. (24.1cm.) diam. (3)

Lot Essay

From a service probably ordered by either the Cadwalader or the Lewis family of Philadelphia. See J.G. Lee, Philadelphians and the China Trade, p. 103, and J. Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain in North America, p. 206.