A CHINESE EXPORT GRISAILLE TEABOWL AND SAUCER AND WASTE BOWL

CIRCA 1805

Details

A CHINESE EXPORT GRISAILLE TEABOWL AND SAUCER AND WASTE BOWL
Circa 1805
The teabowl and saucer finely painted with a Quaker farmer and his bull in a field, a dog at their feet and the farm buildings visible in the distance, the bowl with a roundel showing knights jousting, a gilt grapevine border in the interior and the base with a gilt script monogram
5.5/8 and 4.3/8in. (14.2 and 11.1cm.) diam. (2)

Sale room notice

illustration mislabelled as lot 139

Lot Essay

The teabowl and saucer from the service ordered by the Pemberton family of Philadelphia after an earlier version designed by the Quaker girl Mary Hollingsworth Morris, whose sketchbook survives. See J.G. Lee, Philadelphians and the China Trade, p. 73