拍品 68

The so-called "Fitzhugh" patterns, named after the English family who ordered a blue and white service with this distinctive decoration about 1780, became particularly popular in America, the grandest made in more unusual colors and displaying the national emblem of the new republic. The orange Fitzhugh group on these pages, made for an unidentified BLP, came to Peter Frelinghuysen from his mother, Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen (1884-1963). Adaline, daughter of famed painting collector Louisine Havemeyer, was drawn to the decorative arts (like her sister, Electra Havemeyer Webb, leading American decorative arts collector whose renowned collections form the Shelburne Museum). Mary Cassatt wrote to Louisine, "Adaline was sure to collect she is her Father's daughter & yours" (A C Frelinghuysen et al, Splendid Legacy, p 111). Adaline bought this Fitzhugh at the 1921 American Art Association sale of the distinguished philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence's property, "including his celebrated private collection of Chinese Lowestoft porcelain".

A VERY LARGE INITIALED AMERICAN EAGLE "ORANGE FITZHUGH" PLATTER

CIRCA 1800-1810

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A VERY LARGE INITIALED AMERICAN EAGLE "ORANGE FITZHUGH" PLATTER
CIRCA 1800-1810
The United States eagle in sepia, a ribbon inscribed E PLURIBUS UNUM in his beak and his shield with gilt script monogram
17 1/8 inches (43.5 cm) long

来源

The collection of Amos Adams Lawrence, sold American Art Association, New York, 29 March - 2 April 1921
The collection of Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen
By descent to Peter H B Frelinghuysen Jr

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The so-called "Fitzhugh" patterns, named after the English family who ordered a blue and white service with this distinctive decoration about 1780, became particularly popular in America, the grandest made in more unusual colors and displaying the national emblem of the new republic. The orange Fitzhugh group on these pages, made for some prosperous patriot as-yet-unidentified and initialed BLP, came to Peter Frelinghuysen from his mother, Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen (1884-1963). Adaline, daughter of famed painting collector Louisine Havemeyer, was drawn to the decorative arts (like her sister, Electra Havemeyer Webb, part of the Americana collecting vanguard and founder of the Shelburne Museum). Mary Cassatt wrote to her friend Louisine, "Adaline was sure to collect she is her Father's daughter & yours" (A C Frelinghuysen et al, Splendid Legacy, p 111). Adaline bought this Fitzhugh at the 1921 American Art Association sale of the distinguished philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence's property, "including his celebrated private collection of Chinese Lowestoft porcelain".