Seven Pieces of Chinese Export Blue Canton

19th century, to include a serving bowl with shaped rim and landscape decoration (4.5 x 10 x 10 in., old staple repair); two plates (10 in diameter); two small serving platters (larger 9.5 x 8 in., one with large repair); a footed serving bowl with plain blue line decoration to rim (3.5 x 8.25 in.), and a footed sauce tureen with bull handles (5 x7 x4.5 in.).

Private Collection, Southeast Virginia

By descent from the Estate of Bill Selden, Athens, Tennessee

Exhibited at the McMinn County Living Heritage Museum, Athens, Tennessee, this china descended through the Maria Pemberton Selden family of Virginia, which traces back to the Revolutionary War.