AN INITIALLED AMERICAN MARKET LEAF DISH

FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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AN INITIALLED AMERICAN MARKET LEAF DISH
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
A United States eagle in the center grasping in his beak a puce banner reading E PLURIBUS UNUM, a shield on his breast with gilt script monogram and in his talons a laurel bough and a cluster of arrows
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Sold Sotheby's New York, 29 January 1987, lot 586. Other pieces from the service were in the Garbisch collection, sold by Sotheby's 22 May 1980, lots 329-331. A very similar sauce tureen from a Philadelphia estate was sold Christie's New York, 14 October 1999, lot 110.

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