CIRCA 1810-1820

'Black Fitzhugh-pattern' is one of the rarest of the colour variations of this pattern, which include blue, brown, orange, green, pink and occasionally dual colours. A 'black Fitzhugh-pattern' hot-water dish is illustrated by E. Gordon, Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, 1978, colour pl.IX (top); and a monogrammed teapot in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, after an English pottery and porcelain shape of circa 1805-10 is illustrated by J. McClure Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain in North America, 1986, p.212, colour pl.342 (centre). A 'black Fitzhugh-pattern' butter tub and cover, teacup and saucer and hot-water dish, all formerly in the collection of Mrs. J. William Griffith of Dallas, Texas, were sold Sotheby's New York, 15 October 1993, lots 114, 115 and 116.