Bowl
China
1780-1810
Measurements
2-3/8 in x 5-1/2 in (dia)
Materials
Enameled and gilded porcelain
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.715
Condition Notes
A large section of the bowl has broken from rim. The body has two hairline cracks.
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner. For more information, see "Comments" below.
Comments
The molded bowl has faint vertical ribbing and stands on a foot ring. It is white with carnation sprays that alternate with smaller floral sprigs. A painted border encircles the inside of the rim. The decorations are rendered in green, purple, orange, and red.
An early registration file for this object references a “handwritten paper label inside bowl [that] reads: “Cap & Debbie / Jefferis / 1770-80- / Canton ware made / by Canton.” Neither that label nor any evidence on the bowl now exists. Mrs. Mary Corbit Warner wrote many similar labels and applied them to objects that she had collected and preserved from her earlier descendants. This label suggests ownership by Capt. James Jefferis (c. 1758–1822) and Deborah Hunt (c. 1762–1842), who were the parents of Ann Jefferis ((1791–1822). Ann married David Wilson Jr. (1787-1870), with whom she had Mary Corbit Wilson (1811–1880), the mother of Mrs. Warner.
