Lot Essay
From a service owned by Sylvanus Thayer (1785-1872), superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. See D.S.Howard, New York and the China Trade, p. 116
CIRCA 1810
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AN AMERICAN EAGLE PLATE
circa 1810
Painted in vibrant enamel colors with the spreadwinged eagle perched on trophies of war and holding a blue E PLURIBUS UNUM banner in his beak
9 7/8in. (25cm.) diam.
circa 1810
Painted in vibrant enamel colors with the spreadwinged eagle perched on trophies of war and holding a blue E PLURIBUS UNUM banner in his beak
9 7/8in. (25cm.) diam.