A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN SEPIA AND GILT 'QUAKER FARMER' TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS

Several services with this design were made for Philadelphia families. The Quaker girl Mary Hollingsworth Morris had sketched the scene, probably after a Dutch engraving, in her journal, which survives at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. See J.G. Lee, Philadelphians and the China Trade, p. 73.