Lot Details
Lot 286
Chinese Export Porcelain Partial Service
18th Century
Comprising two serving platters with one cover, two soup plates, five dinner plates, and four tea plates, with a wide blue band with gold stars and monogramed with "JMW" encased in a rose and leaf swag border. Length of covered platter 14 inches; diameter of largest plate 9 3/4 inches.
The items that comprise this lot have descended more than 200 years and through six successive generations of descendants of the original owners of this service, the Honorable James M. Watson (1750-1806) and his wife, Mary Talcott (1752-1806). Watson was a successful New York merchant, statesman and member of the Society of Cincinnati. He was appointed Naval Officer of the City of New York by either George Washington or Quincy Adams and served as a member of the Assembly of New York in 1791, 1794, 1795 and 1796. He was Senator of New York in 1797 and 1798 and U.S. Senator from 1798 to 1800. He died in Manhattan on May 15, 1806, at age 56. A portrait of James Watson painted by John Trumball in 1789 is now in the collection of the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, in Utica, New York.
An additional fifty-four pieces from this dinner service, including eight dinner plates, eight soup plates, six tea plates, five serving dishes, four platters, three bowls, a soup tureen and cover, etc., were gifted to the New York Historical Society (NYHS) by a family member in 1984. Three more bowls from this service can also be found in collection of the NYHS.
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Additional Notes & Condition Report
Wear to gilding on all; cover of tureen with 1 1/2 inch hairline crack extending from rim inside; minor chips to blue enamel
small plates- one with rim chip; one with small 1 inch hairline crack on underside
Some hairline cracks and minor rim chips
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