Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
A Rare Chinese Export 'Orange Fitzhugh' ‘Eagle' Scalloped Rim Oval Dish Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing Period, circa 1800-10
清嘉慶 約1800-10年 粉彩飛鷹圖葵口盤
No reserve
Auction Closed
April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Rare Chinese Export 'Orange Fitzhugh' ‘Eagle' Scalloped Rim Oval Dish
Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing Period, circa 1800-10
清嘉慶 約1800-10年 粉彩飛鷹圖葵口盤
for the American market, the center decorated with an eagle holding a pink banner in its mouth inscribed E Pluribus Unum
10⅛ in. (25.6 cm.) long
Wolf Family Collection No. 0316 (acquired from the above)
A kidney-shaped dish decorated with this pattern is in the Reeves Center Collection, illustrated by Thomas V. Litzenberg, Jr., Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Collection, Washington and Lee University, London, 2003, p. 243, no. 245; and an oval warming dish is in the Collection of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State, Washington D.C., illustrated in the online catalogue of the collection, accession no. RR-1971.0071, https://diplomaticrooms.state.gov/objects/chinese-export-porcelain-orange-fitzhugh-eagle-decorated-hot-water-dish/.
The pieces all exhibit slightly different treatments of the central eagle, indicating a number of different decorators, although the scarcity of pieces extant suggests there may originally have been only one or two services produced to this design. Other orange Fitzhugh services are recorded with the eagle bearing an initialed shield, for examples of which see lots 835, 900, and 901 in the present sale.