American Market Bartlett Family Tea Set #7597 Sold
A very elegantly designed Chinese export porcelain part tea and coffee service made for the American market each piece with a ermine-mantled shield bearing the script initials HB surmounted with a pair of lovebirds or doves and edged with a gilded swag border. With a history of descent in the Bartlett family of Concord, Massachusetts and comprising a covered coffee pot, a drum tea pot with its scalloped stand, a helmet creamer, four tea bowls, two handled cups, six saucers, two large biscuit dishes and a berry dish, 18 pieces total. Restoration to the teapot handle, otherwise all in good condition with only very minor wear to the gilding. Circa 1790-1800.