CIRCA 1795

Details

THE GARDINER FAMILY CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN FOUR-PIECE MANTLE GARNITURE
CIRCA 1795
In blue enamel and gilt, with a basket weave ground and comprising a pair of beaker vases and a pair of baluster bases and covers with gilt buddhist lion finials
11 ¼ in. high the highest (4)

Literature

Dean F. Failey, Long Island Is My Nation, The Decorative Arts & Craftsmen, 1640-1830, Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1976, 2nd ed. 1998, p.165, no.193.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

John Lyon Gardiner's surviving account and daybooks, now in the Long Island Collections of the East Hampton Free Library, record a great deal of activity in the 1790's and early 1800's concerning the refurbishing of the Gardiner's Island house (see the introductory essay). Gardiner not only patronized local craftsmen such as Nathaniel Dominy V, who made at least twenty-one furniture items for him, and Elias Pelletreau, the Southampton silversmith, but he sent to New York, Boston and London for other furnishings.

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