A medium size serving plate with color transfer-printed edge. Wide pink band and scene in center featuring "Shakespeare's House". May be part of the Parisian Pink china purchased by James Buchanan while serving as the U.S. Secretary of State from the French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt.
Provenance
Note: Most likely part of:
French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
Molded creamware saucer with footring has thin curving sides and no flat section. Hand painted decoration: brown foliate motif at bottom center; double banding below lip of differing widths; an unusual repeating garland motif hangs from lower band by zig-zag lines, with a centered yellow circle decorated with brown tufts at top and bottom. An alternating motif hangs like a tassel or an inverted tuft of grass.
Side has a mended rectangular cracked/broken section, 2.25" x 1.25", along lip, with an additional crack extending into saucer bottom. Minor chips at lip and foot ring.
Porcelain tea service set. White background with gold paint design. Design in on the inside of plates and saucers and on outside of cups and bowls. Band with gold line top and bottom. Between these lines, repeated four times each: laurel wreath with flow
Thrown creamware teacup with pronounced footring has thin curving sides with slight inward curve near top. Hand painted decoration: a single brown band near bottom; double banding along lip of differing widths; and an unusual repeating garland motif hangs from lower band by zig-zag lines, with a centered yellow circle decorated with brown tufts at top and bottom. A brown alternating motif hangs like a tassel or an inverted tuft of grass. Applied handle has brown stripe.
