Round dessert service plates. Bright cobalt blue, semi-opaque glass with overlay decoration of silver grapes and leaves. Center of some plates has foliate-like starburst design in silver with grape clusters at ends. Edges are bracket-shaped on dishes. 'S
Dessert service fruit dishes. Bright cobalt blue, semi-opaque glass with overlay decoration of silver grapes and leaves. Center of some plates has foliate-like starburst design in silver with grape clusters at ends. Edges are bracket-shaped on dishes. 'S
Dessert service fruit dishes. Bright cobalt blue, semi-opaque glass with overlay decoration of silver grapes and leaves. Center of some plates has foliate-like starburst design in silver with grape clusters at ends. Edges are bracket-shaped on dishes. 'S
Dessert service candy dishes. Bright cobalt blue, semi-opaque glass with overlay decoration of silver grapes and leaves. Center of some plates has foliate-like starburst design in silver with grape clusters at ends. Edges are bracket-shaped on dishes. 'S
Dessert service oval dishes. Bright cobalt blue, semi-opaque glass with overlay decoration of silver grapes and leaves. Center of some plates has foliate-like starburst design in silver with grape clusters at ends. Edges are bracket-shaped on dishes. 'Si
Dessert service oval dishes. Bright cobalt blue, semi-opaque glass with overlay decoration of silver grapes and leaves. Center of some plates has foliate-like starburst design in silver with grape clusters at ends. Edges are bracket-shaped on dishes. 'Si
Dessert service epergne. Bright cobalt blue, semi-opaque glass with overlay decoration of silver grapes and leaves. Center of some plates has foliate-like starburst design in silver with grape clusters at ends. Edges are bracket-shaped on dishes. 'Silver
Three-mold colorless glass pint decanter etched on one side with initials 'JB' and the other with a sheaf of wheat above the word 'Wheatland'. Elongated chamfered neck with applied handle and bullseye stopper. Teardrop-shaped body with flat front and back.
Silver caster. Elaborate floral decorated with detachable lid. Lid is pierced and topped with a small bud-like knob. Pine cone design. Neck and bulbous body have flower and leaf relief design. Etching at the bottom of the body reads, 'James Buchanan. Whe
Oblong shaped walnut veneered container with a back-hinged lid, beveled shape raised central flat area carved with egg-bead molding. Brass 8-point star bail handles are on each end; one handle missing. Brass round keyhole escutcheon is centered on the top front façade of the box with egg & bead molding around the base surmounting four flat-bun shaped feet. Interior features two boxes with back hinged lids as storage compartments for tea leaves. In the center is a circular aperture lined with felt holding a star cut glass mixing bowl to blend tea leaves.
Pearlware Staffordshire china plate has purple transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Scallop-edged rim has flowers and C-scrolls while sunken bottom has bucolic scene of 2-story house, outbuildings, trees, wooden fence and recumbent cow. A man in late 18th - early 19th c. garb and Quaker broad-rimmed hat walks with a cane in foreground. Underside has printed pattern name and maker under an umbrella canopy: "The Residence/ of the late/ RICHARD JORDAN/ NEW JERSEY/ J H & Co" Impressed at center of underside is mark of maker resembling an airplane propeller within a circle.
One of a set of 6, all have removed paper labels with "SD #48" on back; one has label "Staffordshire" and three have "H220", "H221", and "H222" indicating a Heritage Center loan. See file for info on abolitionist Quaker preacher Richard Jordan (1756-1826).
This set of plates was found in collection and believed to be part of the Sauder estate.
Although produced in England, the Staffordshired china shown depicts the New Jersey residence of the late Richard Jordan, a Quaker preacher in Newton, Burlington Country (near Camden).
Born in 1756, Jordan was one of the first Quakers to publicly campaign against the holding of slaves. After traveling extensively on the east coast and in Europe, he published a travel journal that gave him a degree of fame in the eastern United States.
In 1809 Jordan joined the Newton, New Jersey Quaker Meeting and settled on a small farm in what is now Camden, where he died in 1826. During the last year of his life, Jordan was sketched standing in front of his farm by this friend, William Mason, a Philadelphia drawing teacher. The china service was ordered by friends of the preacher after his death.
Pearlware Staffordshire china plate has purple transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Scallop-edged rim has flowers and C-scrolls while sunken bottom has bucolic scene of 2-story house, outbuildings, trees, wooden fence and recumbent cow. A man in late 18th - early 19th c. garb and Quaker broad-rimmed hat walks with a cane in foreground. Underside has printed pattern name and maker under an umbrella canopy: "The Residence/ of the late/ RICHARD JORDAN/ NEW JERSEY/ J H & Co" Impressed at center of underside is mark of maker resembling an airplane propeller within a circle.
One of a set of 6, all have removed paper labels with "SD #48" on back; one has label "Staffordshire" and three have "H220", "H221", and "H222" indicating a Heritage Center loan. See file for info on abolitionist Quaker preacher Richard Jordan (1756-1826).
This set of plates was found in collection and believed to be part of the Sauder estate.
Pearlware Staffordshire china plate has purple transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Scallop-edged rim has flowers and C-scrolls while sunken bottom has bucolic scene of 2-story house, outbuildings, trees, wooden fence and recumbent cow. A man in late 18th - early 19th c. garb and Quaker broad-rimmed hat walks with a cane in foreground. Underside has printed pattern name and maker under an umbrella canopy: "The Residence/ of the late/ RICHARD JORDAN/ NEW JERSEY/ J H & Co" Impressed at center of underside is mark of maker resembling an airplane propeller within a circle.
One of a set of 6, all have removed paper labels with "SD #48" on back; one has label "Staffordshire" and three have "H220", "H221", and "H222" indicating a Heritage Center loan. See file for info on abolitionist Quaker preacher Richard Jordan (1756-1826).
This set of plates was found in collection and believed to be part of the Sauder estate.
Pearlware Staffordshire china plate has purple transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Scallop-edged rim has flowers and C-scrolls while sunken bottom has bucolic scene of 2-story house, outbuildings, trees, wooden fence and recumbent cow. A man in late 18th - early 19th c. garb and Quaker broad-rimmed hat walks with a cane in foreground. Underside has printed pattern name and maker under an umbrella canopy: "The Residence/ of the late/ RICHARD JORDAN/ NEW JERSEY/ J H & Co" Impressed at center of underside is mark of maker resembling an airplane propeller within a circle.
One of a set of 6, all have now-removed paper labels with "SD #48" on back; one has label "Staffordshire" and three have "H220", "H221", and "H222" indicating a Heritage Center loan. See file for info on abolitionist Quaker preacher Richard Jordan (1756-1826).
This set of 6 plates was found in collection and believed to be part of the Sauder estate.
Pearlware Staffordshire china plate has purple transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Scallop-edged rim has flowers and C-scrolls while sunken bottom has bucolic scene of 2-story house, outbuildings, trees, wooden fence and recumbent cow. A man in late 18th - early 19th c. garb and Quaker broad-rimmed hat walks with a cane in foreground. Underside has printed pattern name and maker under an umbrella canopy: "The Residence/ of the late/ RICHARD JORDAN/ NEW JERSEY/ J H & Co" Impressed at center of underside is mark of maker resembling an airplane propeller within a circle.
One of a set of 6, all have removed paper labels with "SD #48" on back; one has label "Staffordshire" and three have "H220", "H221", and "H222" indicating a Heritage Center loan. See file for info on abolitionist Quaker preacher Richard Jordan (1756-1826).
This set of plates was found in collection and believed to be part of the Sauder estate.
Pearlware Staffordshire china plate has purple transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Scallop-edged rim has flowers and C-scrolls while sunken bottom has bucolic scene of 2-story house, outbuildings, trees, wooden fence and recumbent cow. A man in late 18th - early 19th c. garb and Quaker broad-rimmed hat walks with a cane in foreground. Underside has printed pattern name and maker under an umbrella canopy: "The Residence/ of the late/ RICHARD JORDAN/ NEW JERSEY/ J H & Co" Impressed at center of underside is mark of maker resembling an airplane propeller within a circle.
One of a set of 6, all have removed paper labels with "SD #48" on back; one has label "Staffordshire" and three have "H220", "H221", and "H222" indicating a Heritage Center loan. See file for info on abolitionist Quaker preacher Richard Jordan (1756-1826).
This set of plates was found in collection and believed to be part of the Sauder estate.
Rectangular tray. White porcelain with gold trim, raised pink tray with support openings for a white ink well and a white pounce sander. Scalloped edges form handles on both ends of the raised tray and continues along the oblong tray that held pens. Scalloped edges feature gilded edges on white background bordered by a wide cobalt blue band gilt floral decor. The center of the pen tray is white with a pink, blue and white flower motif.
Provenance
James Buchanan
To Rev. Edward Y. Buchanan (brother)
To Lois Buchanan Cassatt (daughter/JB niece)
To Edward Buchanan Cassatt (son/JB great nephew)
To Lois Buchanan Cassatt Thayer (daughter/JB great, great niece)
American Empire style stool has an upholstered adjustable seat finished with green silk velvet. The serpentine apron and urn shaped pedestal surmounts a plinth base with four square legs each terminating on casters. The primary wood, pine, is veneered in walnut.
Box when opened becomes a lap desk. Two inside lids are covered in green baize, space for papers underneath lid. At one end of desk is a groove for pens, ink well, and sander. Glass ink well in one compartment but sander is missing. On outside of box is
Provenance
James Buchanan
To Harriet Lane Johnston
Purchased at auction Mrs. Lorman's Great-Grandmother in 1884
Mrs. Lorman also dontated 'Water Pitcher'- as of 1-4-2004 the water pitcher location remains unknown
Lapboard received by Buchanan as an 1843 Christmas gift. Purchased by Mr. Lorman's great grandmother at an 1884 auction for Harriet Lane Johnston's household items in Philadelphia.
