拍品 109
109
A MOUNT VERNON BUTTER TUB AND COVER
A MOUNT VERNON BUTTER TUB AND COVER

CIRCA 1805

细节
A MOUNT VERNON BUTTER TUB AND COVER
Circa 1805
Each side with a finely painted sepia oval showing a view of the famous house, three animals grazing in the foreground, the borders of lime green and gilt laurel and interlaced lines, gilt pinecone knop and gilt rims
5.1/8in. (13.cm) wide

拍品专文

As many as five different services were made with this decoration, all taken from an as-yet unidentified engraving of the famous view, probably after an oil painting now in the director's office at Mount Vernon and illustrated by Howard & Ayers, op. cit., vol. II p. 495. Like the Washington Memorial porcelains these orders may have been inspired by the national outpouring of sorrow at the first President's death in 1799.