Decorated with garland designs, centered with small oval reserves bearing the initials JRS (for Joseph Sims, involved in the China Trade, and Rebecca, his wife, of Philadelphia) above which on each side is a Memorial reading Washington with an American Eagle on top, alongside a willow.
Length: 11 ¾ inches (30 cm.)
Width: 8 ½ inches (21.5 cm.)
Ex: Mottahedeh Collection; and later, the Doris and Leo Hodroff Collection With collection labels of each on the underside in addition to old numbered labels.
Other pieces from this service are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (illustrated by Le Corbellier, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, pp.118-119, cat. no. 50.