Chinese Export Porcelain Blue Fitzhugh Sauce Tureens, Covers & Stands, Circa 1780-1810

Chinese Export Porcelain Blue Fitzhugh Sauce Tureens, Covers & Stands.

Circa 1780-1810.

The pair of Chinese Export porcelain sauce tureens, covers and under dishes are painted in underglaze blue with the Fitzhugh pattern.  The handles, with a wide double-loop vine, terminate in grape clusters and leaves.  The covers have large flowerhead finials- one slightly darker than the other.

Dimensions: Stands: 8 inches x 5 3/4 inches x 1 inch high; Tureens: 7 3/4 inches x 5 inches x 5 3/4 inches high; Overall: 8 inches x 5 3/4 inches x 6 inches high.

Fitzhugh pattern.

Early formalized four-paneled decoration on Chinese export porcelain. Named after a director of the British East India Company who is thought to have ordered a dinner service with this pattern first. The most detailed seems to be dating to the last decades of the 18th century. The Fitzhugh china pattern originates from three representatives of two generations of Fitzhughs of the English branch who became sea captains and even a Director of the British East India Company. Senior officers of the EIC were allowed to trade on their own account and they shipped much of the pattern to England.

For more information see an article by J.B.S. Holmes in the American magazine “Antiques”, January 1966, pp.130-1; also Spode’s Willow Pattern and other Designs after the Chinese, Ch. 14, The Chinese Trophies and Fitzhugh Patterns, Robert Copeland, 1990.

(http://www.fitzhugh-genealogy.com/?page_id=43).

(Ref NY9294A-crr).

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