A Chinese Export Blue 'Fitzhugh' pattern part dinner service, early 19th century

each piece typically painted in underglaze-blue with tightly packed groups of stylized flowers, within gilt rims, comprising:
a soup tureen and cover, four small oval platters in various sizes, two sauce boats and three stands, two sauce tureens and two stands and one cover, a lobed dessert dish, a kidney-shaped dessert dish, a shell-shaped dessert dish, an ice pail liner, two circular dishes, a square salad bowl, three small baskets and one stand, a large basket and stand, three medium-sized stands, three large vegetable tureens and covers, four smaller vegetable tureens and covers, twenty dessert plates, nineteen dessert bowls, twenty-one soup plates and 17 dinner plates. Two pieces broken, soup tureen cover repaired, some small chips and hair cracks. 123 pieces. Estimate 10,000—15,000 USD

NOTE: According to the transcript of a label dated 1960 and formerly affixed to the back of one piece of this serivce, it was given to Helen Bunce Edwards in 1909. Mrs. Bunce Edwards had received it from Grace Jewett Bunce, a relative of a Miss Roosevelt who had married Mr. Richard Varick, Mayor of New York, in 1789, and to whom the serivce had apparently once belonged.

Sotheby's. Important Americana. 23 Jan 09. New York. photo courtesy Sotheby's. www.sothebys.com