Greenish-brown glass with kick in bottom. Cork sealed in mouth of bottle with pinkish wax ('Red Seal') and copper wire. Old torn tag around neck 'Dennison Mfg. Co. Tag Mfrs. 25 & 28 Franklin St. Boston'. Label on bottle printed with '1827 Red Seal Madeira'
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
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)
Platter of ironstone transferware with clear glaze. Rectangular with clipped corners, recessed bottom and moderately wide sides that extend outward. White body is devoid of decoration except for black transfer scene of a long bridge spanning a river, 5 people in foreground, town at right end of bridge and another in the distance on right bank. Underside has apparent impressed mark and transfer maker's mark at center: under a spread eagle with shield is a "sign" reading "COLUMBIA BRIDGE ON THE SUSQUEHANNA". Below it is "W.R.", indicating maker William Ridgway & Co. Sticker on bottom is: "$390" and "CLP". This river scene is a variation of the print done by William Henry Bartlett (see G98.12.21).
Shelton or Hanley, England
Provenance
Purchased in Adamstown Antiques Gallery for Heritage Center collection. Transferred from Heritage Center, December 2012.
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.
Mochaware pitcher, white potbelly body on footring, pulled spout and applied handle with foliate-molded terminals. Hand-painted slip decoration has broad orange center band with dendritic forms. Two bands of ligt blue are flanked by pairs of thin brown bands
Two attached stickers read "Mocha 1 P" and "2352 J.B. Morris Jr.".
Large chips at spout, on rim near handle. Small chips on footring and crack. Soil overall. Occasional marring and abrasions. Slip decoration on sides in remarkably good shape.
Glazed soft paste porcelain Gaudy Dutch teapot (A) with lid (B). Handpainted "Butterfly" pattern decoration on pale blue body of pearlware. Squat ovoid body sits on a low footring; body swells most in lower half. Collar extends outward below an oblong mouth fitted with conforming domed lid with oblong knob finial . Spout has minimal molding as does arching applied handle.
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
Overall strong staining, especially at lower spout and base section and interior. Strong hairline cracks throughout base and bottom, with resulting staining. Scratchon butterfly wing. Chip on underside of spout tip. Long split/crack on handle back, perhaps from firing. Coloring is very uneven at multiple places, sometimes creating a mottled effect. Wear and soil under foot ring.
Object ID
G.98.51.03a-b
Place of Origin
England
Credit
Given in memory of Harpo by Susan Marx, Heritage Center Collection
Glazed soft paste porcelain Gaudy Welsh sugar bowl (A) with lid (B). Handpainted inverted tulips of red and yellow are interspersed with 3 large, dominating deep blue scalloped motifs decorated with copper lustre painted floral decoration. Squat pot-bellied body sits on a low squarish pedestal with scalloped edging. Two molded angular applied handles. Top has round mouth with flared collar extends outward. Domed lid has squarish molded knob finial. Darkened remnant of paper sticker with blurred writing, perhaps "-caster/ --ea set/ --1825."
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
Chinese export bowl of high fired porcelain, polychrome decoration under glaze. Thin walled in nearly hemispherical form sitting on a 3/4" raised foot. Gold-painted rim with red edging. Two goldfish inside bottom. Continuous landscape on exterior is the same repeating Roman or Greek scene of a seated half-robed seated man with dog facing three nude women and seated baby. All set against distant mountains and one tree in foreground.
Glazed soft paste porcelain bowl, hand-painted "Kings Rose" pattern decoration. Sitting on a footring , the bowl has steeply curving high sides. Decorated on opposing sides with the same design of a large red flower surrounded by smaller yellow flowers with rust petals and leaves.Interior design along rim are four pink flowers spaced around rim and linked by thin line banding, S-curves, and various round shapes. Center of bottom has one red flower with leaves.
Papers stickers underneath are: "Gaudy Dutch/ Kings Rose," then "18B" and finally a loan number "6.23.82" referring to the 1982 loan to the Heritage Center.
Small scratches and areas of paint loss, particularly the round, green "fruits" on inner rim. Inside discoloration, stains, soil. Some wear to foot ring. Rim has multiple tiny chips, abrasions and wear.
Cup (A) and saucer (B), glazed soft-paste porcelain, Strawberry pattern. Handleless cup has straight flaring sides & rests on a small foot Paint decoration on white ground has 2 strawberries & a large green leaf on each side with smaller leaves, purple roses and brown squiggles. Interior has double stripe with berries and flowers. Rim painted rust.
Saucer (B)
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.