$2,400
Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500
American Furniture, Decorative & Folk Art
Auction: April 19, 2016 11:00:00 AM EDT
Including near pair of pitchers of Walker shape, each handle inscribed in gilt, "Affection," with gilt monogram and date beneath spout, "NSJ 1828"; a near pair of pitchers in the Grecian shape, each with incised "C" to underside, one retains paper label; and a mug on a square base, with gilt monogram, "T.T" possibly for Thomas Tucker, within a laurel wreath, retains multiple typed and hand-written labels.
H(s): 4 5/8 in. to 6 1/4 in.Provenance: Estate of Philip H. Hamerslough, Jr. (1920-2013) and Edith Hamerslough (1921-2015), Rye, New York.
Formerly in the Collection of Philip H. Hammerslough (1894-1978), Hartford, Connecticut.
The first item: Illustrated: "Rarities in Tucker Porcelain in the Collection of Philip H. Hammerslough," The Magazine Antiques, September 1958, p. 241.
Referenced in the description of a related pitcher ascribed to Tucker and Hulme, Philadelphia, 1828: see Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. American Porcelain 1770-1920, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1989), pp.
92-93.
The second pair: Exhibited: Probably items 372-373, Tucker China 1825-1838, Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 4-September 9, 1957, as listed on p. 27.
Third item: Exhibited in aforementioned exhibition, item 451, p. 29 and published in accompanying exhibition catalog of the same name.