AN AMERICAN EAGLE "GREEN FITZHUGH" LOZENGE-SHAPED DISH

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN AMERICAN EAGLE "GREEN FITZHUGH" LOZENGE-SHAPED DISH
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With a United States spread-winged eagle, the puce ribbon in his beak inscribed E PLURIBUS UNUM and a shield on his chest with interlaced gilt script monogram, all within the characteristic pattern rendered in translucent pine green over black detail
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Designs inspired by the Great Seal of the United States became quite fashionable on Chinese export porcelain in the first decades of the new nation. A deep oval dish of very similar pattern was in the collection of Mildred and Rafi Mottahedeh, illustrated by D.S. Howard and J. Ayres, op. cit., p. 509.

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