A SEPIA AND GILT 'QUAKER FARMER' COFFEE CUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1810

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A SEPIA AND GILT 'QUAKER FARMER' COFFEE CUP AND SAUCER
Circa 1810
The farmer leaning against a bull in his field, a small dog at their feet, gilt band borders (2)

Lot Essay

Several services with this design, in both grisaille and sepia, were made for Philadelphia families. The Quaker girl Mary Hollingsworth Morris sketched the scene, possibly after a Dutch engraving. Her sketchbook survives at Dumbarton House, Washington D.C., alongside grisaille and sepia examples of the porcelain that descended in the family. See J.G. Lee, Philadelphians and the China Trade, p. 73.

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