A PAIR OF AMERICAN MARKET CRESTED AND INITIALLED PLATES
A PAIR OF AMERICAN MARKET CRESTED AND INITIALLED PLATES

CIRCA 1825

Details
A PAIR OF AMERICAN MARKET CRESTED AND INITIALLED PLATES
Circa 1825
Initialled CMJ in script beneath a bird's head crest
7in. (18.4cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Made for Mary Walker Carter and (Thomas) Catesby Jones of Virginia, who married in 1823. See J. Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain in North America, p. 213, and Schiffer, op. cit., p. 84