A white porcelain sugar bowl with an oblong, octagonal shaped body decorated with a vine of pink roses, 's' tendrils and blue flowers. A thin gilt band wraps around the body at the chamfered edge. Below the gilt band at the short sides of the body, are gilt knob handles. Above the gilt band is the bowl opening covered by the separate lid. The lid, also decorated with a rose vine, features a gilt band around the rim and is capped with a mushroom-shaped handle.
Meissen porcelain factory, Meissen, Germany
Provenance
Miss Mary E. Herr [donor] Given in memory of her sister Mrs. John Malone.
1961 Brigadier General J. Steinhoff visited Wheatland and dated tea set 1709-1729. His research found that the porcelain was from the town of Meissen, Germany and originally created for the household of Augustus Rex, called August the Strong, was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in the years 1697–1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733. He belonged to the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.
Lex vadiorum : the law of mortgages, wherein is treated the nature of mortgages, and the several sorts of proviso's in the same deed, or by deed absolute : defeazance, demise and redemise, or by covenant, and otherwise : with special clauses, conditions, and covenants, explained and illustrated by many adjudged cases at common law, and by presidents : likewise of the payments of the mortgage-money, by whom and to whom, and several cases and rules of tender : also of assignments of mortgages, and the manner of assignees transferring, accounting, &c. : with proper and well-pen'd presidents, according to the circumstances of cases : and further, of the equity of redemption and the nature of it, and how it is governed by the rules of equity : and of releases of equity of redemption and how transferrable or extinguishable : with the niceties of buying in precedent incumbrances : and several other matters and cases adjudged in the High Court of Chancery (with presidents of bills, answers, pleas) &c. : to which are added several cases of pawns and pledges, adjudged at common law
A treatise concerning trespasses vi et armis : wherein the nature of trespass is clearly explicated and the gist of the action stated and by whom such actions may be brought and against whom and how to be laid
De successionibus apud Anglos : the law of hereditary descents, shewing the rise, progress and successive alterations thereof : also the law of descent as now in rule
The gamesters law; wherein is treated, of unlawful games, and what are esteemed such in our law ... Of the power of the justices by the common and statute law in punishing offenders, and searching gaming-houses
Pastor divinitùs electus et legitimè : Oder Der göttlich-erwählte und rechtmä€ig-beruffene Prediger ; Nach Anla€ d. Propheten Esaiä Cap. 41, v. 27
With: 1 title of 268 p. with title page and part of foreword missing; -- Bernard Walther Marberger, Gute Gedancten von der Böxen Zeit Nürnberg, 1714... -- Sebastiani Edzardi, Vertheidigungder christlichen Lehre vom Binde-Schlü̈ssel, 1707. Bound together subsequent to publication.
Sebastiani Edzardi, Prof. Publ. Vertheidigung der christlichen Lehre vom Binde-Schlüssel, wider das unchristliche Bedencken D. Christiani Thomasii : nebst einen gründlichen Beweiss, dass der Abfall zum Papstthum die ewige Verdammnis nach sich ziehe
With: 1 title of 268 p. with title page and part of foreword missing; -- Bernard Walther Marberger, Gute Gedancten von der Böxen Zeit 1707... -- Johann Christian Holzhey, Pastor divinitus electus et legitime vocatus... Luebeck und Leipzig: Printed by Johann Wiedemehyer, 1695. Bound together subsequent to publication.
Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of Exchequer, in the years 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1659, and 1660. And from thence continued to the 21st year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles II. [1669]
"There is a chasm in all the copies of the first edition of Hardres of pp. 233-300 inclusive, and the catchword at the bottom of p. 232 would indicate that something was actually omitted."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Imperfect: 1st-3d, 6th prelim. leaves wanting; supplied in photostat facsimile.
2 volumes frontispiece (volumes 2, portrait) 32 cm
Notes
Title varies: v. 2: The second part of the Reports of cases and special arguments, argued and adjudged in the Court of King's bench ... By Sir Bartholomew Shower.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 572 and 573 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
[pt. 1] Cases adjudg'd in ... in the reign of King William III.--pt. 2. Beginning in Easter term the thirtieth of King Charles the Second, and ending in Easter term the third of King James the Second.