Cup
The artist who decorated this cup based his view of Washington’s home, Mount Vernon, on a painting produced by Edward Savage c. 1787-1792. Several versions of this design and five different border patterns have been identified on surviving porcelains, suggesting that quite a few Americans chose this means to remember the father of their country.
See also East Front of Mount Vernon, H-2445/A.
Published ReferencesThomas Litzenburg, Jr. Chinese Export Porcelain in The Reeves Center Collection (London: Third Millenium Publishing Limited, 2003), 265. (general reference)
Geoffrey A. Godden, Oriental Export Market Porcelain and its Influence on European Wares (London: Granada, 1979), 214. (general reference)
Jean McClure Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain in North America (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1986), 215. (general reference)
Arlene M. Palmer, A Winterthur Guide to Chinese Export Porcelain (New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1976), 132. (general reference)
Jean McClure Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade, 1785-1835 (Wilmington: University of Delaware Press, 1962), 173. (general reference)