The Kaufman Collection: The pursuit of excellence and a gift to the nation
The Kaufmans' encyclopedic collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American masterworks of cabinetmaking is an extraordinary gift to the nation. Seeing it in situ with their collection of Dutch paintings makes a sublime kind of sense. The paintings, which originally belonged to the merchant elite of that country, are a beautiful fit with the furniture made for the merchant elite of this country.
John A. Hays
Deputy Chairman,Christie's America
Pickle Dish, American China Manufactory (Bonnin and Morris), Philadelphia, 1771-72. Soft-paste porcelain with lead glaze; height 4 3/16, width 4 1/2
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