A CHINESE EXPORT PLATE AND JARDINIÈRE STAND circa 1800

each painted in sepia and salmon heightened in gilding, the plate with a central oval landscape panel with a view of Mount Vernon within a 'Fitzhugh'-type border on the rim; and the stand with an eagle perched atop a monument inscribed WASHINGTON within an entwined floral garland and ribbon border and salmon-ground foliate band around the rim, raised on five short bracket feet. Minor haircrack and chips, some wear to gilding.

The plate has a fine haircrack running from the rim edge to the footrim at 10 o'clock, a tiny rim chip at 4 o'clock, a minor frit-related rim chip at 9 o'clock and considerable wear to the narrow gilt band around the rim edge. The stand has a 1/2-in. flat chip to the rim, mostly on the underside; one of the bracket feet is chipped away; and there is wear to the gilding of the rim edge.
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The jardinière stand is amongst the many wares made to commemorate the death of George Washington in 1799. A tureen cover from a monogrammed service, part of the collection of Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, is illustrated by David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, p. 494, n. 504, and was sold in these rooms on October 19, 2000, lot 328. Jean McClure Mudge illustrates a pot de crème, as well as a plate and a platter, in the collection of the Winterthur Museum, Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade, p. 201, fig. 110. A pot de crème, from the Appell Family Collection, was sold in these rooms, January 18, 2003, lot 1106. The 'Mount Vernon' plate  is from one of at least seven differently bordered services, each with a variant of central 'Mount Vernon' panel, the print source for which is not known.  A cup and saucer with a geren foliate border was in the Collection of Diane and Norman Bernstein, sold in these rooms, January 22, 2006, lot 67.