Das ist der Preis für die folgende Bewertung: painted in brown monochrome in the center with a spread-winged eagle perched on a monument inscribed within an oval on its base WASHINGTON, beside it a willow tree, the lower edge of the cavetto with a brown-edged worn gilt band beneath a gilt-heightened and flower-filled drapery swag entwined with a gold and brown flowering vine interrupted at the top of the rim with an oval monogrammed in iron-red and gold JRS, and the rim edge (two small chips) with a salmon-ground border of brown and gold leaves and gold stars between gilt-dashed or dotted iron-red bands, (general wear). Length 18 1/2 in. (47 cm.) This platter is from a much-illustrated but remarkably under-documented service, which, in its depiction of a monument to Washington, assumed to be his tomb, must have been ordered shortly after the great patriot's death on December 14, 1799, when the new republic was consumed with national mourning, and representations of grief proliferated in America's decorative and fine arts. The central decoration probably was inspired by a contemporary print (a similar rendering of the tomb appears on early 19th-Century transfer-decorated Liverpool creamware, jugs, an example of which is illustrated by Robert H. McCauley, Liverpool Transfer Designs on Anglo-American Pottery, pl. XXC, no. 63), while the border decoration is well known in Chinese Export porcelain of the early 19th Century. What has generally remained mysterious, however, is the identity of the original owner of this service, probably because the monogram on the rim has been misread consistently as JRL rather than JRS, which has encouraged such unsubstantiatable provenances as Judith and Robert Lewis (the daughter-in-law and son of George Washington's sister Betty [1733-97] and her husband Fielding Lewis [1723-81]), and John R. Latimer, who, according to Le Corbeiller, Patterns of Exchange, p. 119, was a Philadelphia merchant active in the China trade from about 1815 to 1833. Mrs. Le Corbeiller also cites Hyde, who on p. 130 states that two dinner services with this decoration are known, and made about the year 1800 for Philadelphia families, though Hyde describes only the service monogrammed J.R.L. Mrs. Le Corbeiller, however, illustrates an octagonal plate, ibid., p. 118, no. 50, which she indicates is monogrammed PAS, and which could represent the second serrvice, though this too could be a misreading of the script monogram JRS. Certainly, the most revealing information about the possible identity of the original owner of this mourning service has been provided by Stacia G. Norman, Curator/Program Coordinator of Kenmore, the historic house museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which has three pieces of this service in its collections, one of which was donated with a hand-written provenance. This and further research has proven that they were actually owned by Joseph Sims of Philadelphia. The Sims' furnishings were auctioned in 1824, and documentation is found in a letter from Louisa E. Ewing to her brother Maskell C. Ewing, dated Janry 12th 1824 and reprinted in The American Magazine, Volume III, number 2, 1987-88, p. 43. In addition to a drawing of Joseph Sims' impressive Classical-style house, the letter describes the interior and its more notable contents: The week before christmass I spent in town and as Sims's furniture oposite to Uncle Pattersons was sold I went to see it. The front parlour had an elegant organ which took up one side of the room, there was another organ for chanting, and an old piano. The carpet was turkish but very much worn, the chairs were mahogony with hair seats, very old fashioned and worn out....The curtains were blue crimson and yellow damask with a portrait of washington in the center of the middle drapery, they were the handsomest I ever saw....Upstairs was a very handsome library with glass ships, chinese mandarines, busts, paintings, marble figures etc. to fill it up. All the china had the tomb of washington in the center of every piece. I have now given you a description of all that was worth notice.... Of the various pieces from this service illustrated in the standard reference works on Chinese Export porcelain, only Howard and Ayers, Volume II, p. 494, no. 504, who illustrate a vegetable tureen cover, have correctly identified the monogram as JRS. (The same piece is illustrated by Trubner and Rathbone, p. 39 [bottom], no. 14.) The other examples all have been misidentified as JRL, or not identified at all. Beurdeley illustrates a plate, p. 156, cat. 37, and a jardiniere, p. 201, cat. 220, which is the same jardiniere illustrated by Hyde, p. 134, pl. XXVI, no. 101. Gordon, pp. 144 and 145, pls. 135 and 136 illustrates a sauce tureen and an 11-inch platter; Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade, p. 201, fig. 110 illustrates a plate, an oval platter (missing its strainer) and a pot de creme, probably one of the two pots de creme illustrated by Palmer, p. 132, fig. 88b; and the tomb detail from a teabowl is illustrated in The Reeves Collection, p. 54, fig. 55, no. 260. An octagonal hot water dish from this service is illustrated in Chinese Export Porcelain, an Historical Survey (Elinor Gordon, Editor), color pl. XI; and another oval platter lacking its strainer is illustrated ibid., p. 117, fig. 8, and p. 72, fig. 5a, where a plate with a slightly overinterpreted imitation of this decoration, made by the Vivinis factory in Paris, probably early in the 20th Century, is illustrated as fig. 5b, providing an interesting postscript to the enduring popularity of George Washington in life and death. We wish to acknowledge with thanks the contributions of Stacia G. Norman, who credited Mrs. Joseph Carson of Philadelphia with having discovered the Louisa Ewing letter's reference to the Sims porcelain; and Neville Thompson of the library at the Henry F. du Pont Winterthur Museum, who made a copy of the published letter from an obscure periodical available at a moment's notice. Although no biographical information about Joseph Sims had been found at the time of this printing, this research will be the next interesting step in the identification of this service. nach Neville Lewis

Neville Lewis (1895-1972)
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painted in brown monochrome in the center with a spread-winged eagle perched on a monument inscribed within an oval on its base WASHINGTON, beside it a willow tree, the lower edge of the cavetto with a brown-edged worn gilt band beneath a gilt-heightened and flower-filled drapery swag entwined with a gold and brown flowering vine interrupted at the top of the rim with an oval monogrammed in iron-red and gold JRS, and the rim edge (two small chips) with a salmon-ground border of brown and gold leaves and gold stars between gilt-dashed or dotted iron-red bands, (general wear). Length 18 1/2 in. (47 cm.) This platter is from a much-illustrated but remarkably under-documented service, which, in its depiction of a monument to Washington, assumed to be his tomb, must have been ordered shortly after the great patriot's death on December 14, 1799, when the new republic was consumed with national mourning, and representations of grief proliferated in America's decorative and fine arts. The central decoration probably was inspired by a contemporary print (a similar rendering of the tomb appears on early 19th-Century transfer-decorated Liverpool creamware, jugs, an example of which is illustrated by Robert H. McCauley, Liverpool Transfer Designs on Anglo-American Pottery, pl. XXC, no. 63), while the border decoration is well known in Chinese Export porcelain of the early 19th Century. What has generally remained mysterious, however, is the identity of the original owner of this service, probably because the monogram on the rim has been misread consistently as JRL rather than JRS, which has encouraged such unsubstantiatable provenances as Judith and Robert Lewis (the daughter-in-law and son of George Washington's sister Betty [1733-97] and her husband Fielding Lewis [1723-81]), and John R. Latimer, who, according to Le Corbeiller, Patterns of Exchange, p. 119, was a Philadelphia merchant active in the China trade from about 1815 to 1833. Mrs. Le Corbeiller also cites Hyde, who on p. 130 states that two dinner services with this decoration are known, and made about the year 1800 for Philadelphia families, though Hyde describes only the service monogrammed J.R.L. Mrs. Le Corbeiller, however, illustrates an octagonal plate, ibid., p. 118, no. 50, which she indicates is monogrammed PAS, and which could represent the second serrvice, though this too could be a misreading of the script monogram JRS. Certainly, the most revealing information about the possible identity of the original owner of this mourning service has been provided by Stacia G. Norman, Curator/Program Coordinator of Kenmore, the historic house museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which has three pieces of this service in its collections, one of which was donated with a hand-written provenance. This and further research has proven that they were actually owned by Joseph Sims of Philadelphia. The Sims' furnishings were auctioned in 1824, and documentation is found in a letter from Louisa E. Ewing to her brother Maskell C. Ewing, dated Janry 12th 1824 and reprinted in The American Magazine, Volume III, number 2, 1987-88, p. 43. In addition to a drawing of Joseph Sims' impressive Classical-style house, the letter describes the interior and its more notable contents: The week before christmass I spent in town and as Sims's furniture oposite to Uncle Pattersons was sold I went to see it. The front parlour had an elegant organ which took up one side of the room, there was another organ for chanting, and an old piano. The carpet was turkish but very much worn, the chairs were mahogony with hair seats, very old fashioned and worn out....The curtains were blue crimson and yellow damask with a portrait of washington in the center of the middle drapery, they were the handsomest I ever saw....Upstairs was a very handsome library with glass ships, chinese mandarines, busts, paintings, marble figures etc. to fill it up. All the china had the tomb of washington in the center of every piece. I have now given you a description of all that was worth notice.... Of the various pieces from this service illustrated in the standard reference works on Chinese Export porcelain, only Howard and Ayers, Volume II, p. 494, no. 504, who illustrate a vegetable tureen cover, have correctly identified the monogram as JRS. (The same piece is illustrated by Trubner and Rathbone, p. 39 [bottom], no. 14.) The other examples all have been misidentified as JRL, or not identified at all. Beurdeley illustrates a plate, p. 156, cat. 37, and a jardiniere, p. 201, cat. 220, which is the same jardiniere illustrated by Hyde, p. 134, pl. XXVI, no. 101. Gordon, pp. 144 and 145, pls. 135 and 136 illustrates a sauce tureen and an 11-inch platter; Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade, p. 201, fig. 110 illustrates a plate, an oval platter (missing its strainer) and a pot de creme, probably one of the two pots de creme illustrated by Palmer, p. 132, fig. 88b; and the tomb detail from a teabowl is illustrated in The Reeves Collection, p. 54, fig. 55, no. 260. An octagonal hot water dish from this service is illustrated in Chinese Export Porcelain, an Historical Survey (Elinor Gordon, Editor), color pl. XI; and another oval platter lacking its strainer is illustrated ibid., p. 117, fig. 8, and p. 72, fig. 5a, where a plate with a slightly overinterpreted imitation of this decoration, made by the Vivinis factory in Paris, probably early in the 20th Century, is illustrated as fig. 5b, providing an interesting postscript to the enduring popularity of George Washington in life and death. We wish to acknowledge with thanks the contributions of Stacia G. Norman, who credited Mrs. Joseph Carson of Philadelphia with having discovered the Louisa Ewing letter's reference to the Sims porcelain; and Neville Thompson of the library at the Henry F. du Pont Winterthur Museum, who made a copy of the published letter from an obscure periodical available at a moment's notice. Although no biographical information about Joseph Sims had been found at the time of this printing, this research will be the next interesting step in the identification of this service.
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