Live Auction 12444Philadelphia Splendor: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Max R Zaitz
A GROUP OF CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN SHIPPING TEA WARES
Lot 222

A GROUP OF CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN SHIPPING TEA WARES

CIRCA 1795-1805

Closed22 January 2016

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A GROUP OF CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN SHIPPING TEA WARES
CIRCA 1795-1805
comprising an American Market teabowl and saucer decorated with a war ship flying the American flag beneath an interlaced gilt script monogram CWFER, within gilt and blue enamel ribbons and a blue enameled border with gilt stars; another teabowl and saucer similarly decorated with a trading ship and simple blue enameled border; and a tea caddy (lacking cover) decorated with a trading ship beneath a blue enameled and gilt star decorated border
5 ½ in. diameter, the saucers

Reportedly from a service made for C. Wyer of Nantucket, a nephew of Benjamin Franklin
Mr. & Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Sold, Christie's, New York, 16 January 1998, lot 138 (the first teabowl and saucer)

Helen & Louis Appell, Sinking Springs Farms, York, Pennsylvania
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 18 January 2003, lot 1106 (the second teabowl and saucer, part)

Property of a Los Angeles Private Collector
Sold, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 26 January 1984, lot 154
Property from the Collection of the Late Perry Ellis
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 29 January 1987, lot 574 (the tea caddy)