First Annual Summer Americana Auction

Lot 144:

Chinese Export Porcelain Assembled Tea and Coffee Service.

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Start price: $300

Estimated price: $600 - $800

Buyer's premium: 20%

Blue Fitzhugh pattern, nineteenth century. Comprising a teapot and cover, the chains joined by a shield engraved with script initials, a milk jug and cover, two coffee cups, five small teabowls and saucers, and two rice bowls and one cover, all but two saucers with the same gilt-heightened border pattern; and a similar tea caddy and cover, milk jug and cover, four coffee cups, and a platter. Height of teapot 5 ¼ inches. (23) Provenance: Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, March 6, 2016, lot 579.