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Splendid American Legacy Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Jr. was a life-long resident of New Jersey, where his family first settled in 1720. A graduate of Princeton and Yale, Peter served 11 terms in the United States Congress (1953-74), carrying on a family tradition that includes four Senators, a Secretary of State and a Vice-Presidential candidate. He was an enthusiastic gardener, traveler, and supporter of music, arts, and conservation causes - and also an inveterate collector. Peter Frelinghuysen grew up among avid collectors. His grandparents, Henry and Louisine Havemeyer, had wide-ranging interests beyond the well-known collection of Impressionist paintings they left to the Metropolitan Museum. His father collected American painting and prints and his aunt Electra Webb founded the Shelburne Museum. Starting as a teenager, Peter built a stamp collection representative both of America's early eras and of the breadth of the world, reflecting his life-long love of history. During his years in Washington DC Peter began to expand his nascent Chinese export collection in earnest, finding examples that appealed to his eye, had a compelling story or reflected events long ago or far away. When foreign diplomats left the city they occasionally sold their collections to local antique dealers; hence Peter's group of Spanish and Mexican market pieces found at Michael Arpad. In later years, Peter Frelinghuysen would tell his children that his interest in Chinese export began with an inherited set of American eagle orange Fitzhugh. Later his wide-ranging travel took him to many of the places he knew through his reading and collecting, and that added personal meaning and perspective to his finds. His return home from an overseas trip was often followed by the arrival of a wooden crate yielding up a delicate porcelain enveloped in wood shavings. A travel highlight was Peter's trip to China in 1972, just as the U.S. began to re-establish relations. Antique pieces not being available in the Maoist state, Peter ordered a large set of new Chinese blue and white tableware for household use, a personal and contemporary version of the old China Trade. It was a privilege to know Peter Frelinghuysen, an inspired collector and a wonderful man. Christie's is honored to be offering his magnificent collection of Chinese export porcelain. Becky MacGuire Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Jr. The friendship between Peter Frelinghuysen and my husband, David Sanctuary Howard, went back to the late 1970s and a loan exhibition at the Newark Museum. Peter's enthusiastic pursuit of his collection and keen sense of history - he knew all his pieces and their stories - his love of politics and pride in his Dutch American heritage, appealed at once to David. Over years of correspondence, David always looked forward to staying in Morristown and the discussions they would have from porcelain to the social issues of the day and far beyond, and to the visits Peter and Bee made to London and later to Bath. Gardens were another shared passion and it was a picture of them both in our garden at West Yatton which David chose to include in his autobiography. While politics ran in his blood through his paternal ancestry, Peter undoubtedly acquired the collecting gene from his mother's family. More than anything else his collection was shaped by some of the values he held to be important: patriotism and valour, history and heritage, and the development and success of America through her participation in the China trade. All this can be seen from the catalogue that follows, where the words 'unusual' and 'rare' appear consistently: porcelain made for George Washington at Mount Vernon; the United States eagle in various forms and American Fitzhugh designs of every colour; armorial and dated pieces for the Dutch market; the interest in freemasonry, historical events, political alliances and naval battles; the commemoration of the New World through porcelain made for its cities and universities. Maritime connections, in particular, form a significant and wide-ranging group; an interest perhaps developed through Peter's role in naval intelligence during the war. Amongst others, a pair of rare bowls decorated with the Battle of the Saints and its main protagonists, the French Comte de Grasse and the British Admiral Rodney, who successfully held Jamaica towards the end of the Revolutionary War though did little to alter the outcome, are accompanied by an even more rare representation of the St. Albans, a British ship of the line in the battle. A plate depicting Portobello harbour and commemorating Admiral Vernon's earlier success in the Spanish colonies with just six ships, is matched by a view of the Dutch fleet at the Cape of Good Hope. It will seem strange arriving in New York in the third week of January and not phoning Peter to wish him a happy 96th birthday - my unvarying first call for the last few years - and later joining him at the Christie's auction where he always found something to interest him. But I will picture him whilst sharing that birthday lunch last January, engaged in animated conversation and seated in his elegant dining room overlooking the garden, where these shipping scenes and so many other exceptional pieces were on display. Angela Howard West Yatton

AN ENGLISH MARKET BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL PUDDING DISH

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AN ENGLISH MARKET BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL PUDDING DISH
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The arms of Haldane in colors and gilt in the center as if on a bookplate, the well and rim with finely painted cobalt blue decoration centering the crest
6 3/8 inches (16.1 cm) diameter

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A soup plate from this handsome service was exhibited in A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, London, 1997 (cat p 56), where D S Howard writes "the manner of painting the armorial from a bookplate is remarkable, and confirms that an actual bookplate was coloured and taken to China - the earliest recorded example of this happening."

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