collection of Winterthur Museum

Additional Image:

Additional pieces from the dessert service.
Shape Type
Dinner & Dessert Wares
Pattern Type
Naval and Marine
Date
1785-90
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.00 in (15.24 cm)
Maker
Neale & Wilson

Maker's Mark:

Impressed
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Description:

Creamware sauce tureen from a dessert service in which pieces are variously marked “Neale & Wilson”, “Neale & Co”or are left unmarked. The decoration of seashells and seaweed is printed over-glaze in puce with a maroon border painted in a shell-edge design. The service once belonged to Mrs. Perez Morton an American poet and friend of George Washington.
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