Sold for $3,150

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Lot Description

A Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Coffee Pot and Tea Caddy

Circa 1750

depicting the arms of (probably) Fryer impaling Parker of Devon surmounted by crest of Fryer.
Height of coffee pot 8 3/4 inches.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Literature:
David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1974, pp. 549

Note:
The articles in the present lot likely originated from a larger tea and coffee service commissioned by Sir John Fryer, Lord Mayor of London (1720-21) and director of the East India Company and South Sea Company, for his son John Fryer of Exeter in Devon, and wife Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Parker of Blagdon, Devon.

A nineteen-piece tea and coffee service, matching the present lot and likely of the same original service, was sold at auction by Puttick and Simpson in the sale of the extensive collection of Chinese armorial porcelain belonging to Frederick Arthur Crisp Esq., F.S.A. (London, 8-9 March 1923).

Condition Report

In overall fair and stable condition. The teapot with rubbing to most gilt decoration along the edge of the lid and spout and to the finial handle atop the lid. The paint decoration with light rubbing. The lid having three converging hairlines, visible from the top and underside. The pot having a flake of loss along the rim and one along the tip of the spout. The lid to the tea caddy exhibiting signs of restoration, particularly from a white deposit apparently painted to the underside. The finial with light rubbing to gilt and some roughness, and having a chip and rubbing to gilt along the edge of the lid as well. The container stable, with scattered spots of roughness from loss to glaze along the top edge and feet. With a paper sticker adhered to underside of container and lid.

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