Sumpter Priddy III and Joan Quinn
A Monroe Punch Bowl and American Lithographers in Paris, 1814–1824

Ceramics in America 2008

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  • Figure 1
    Figure 1

    Punch bowl, Paris, 1822–1828. Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze lithograph transfers, painted decoration, overglaze gilding. H. 7 1/2", D. 12". (Courtesy, The James Monroe Memorial Foundation; photo, Baltimore Museum of Art.) Although the maker of the bowl is unknown, the lithographs were designed and drawn by William Armand Barnet, possibly with assistance from Isaac Doolittle. 

  • Figure 2
    Figure 2

    Detail of the eagle lithograph on the bowl illustrated in fig. 1.

  • Figure 3
    Figure 3

    Detail of the rose-branch portraits on the bowl illustrated in fig. 1.

  • Figure 4
    Figure 4

    Dessert plate, Pierre Louis Dagoty and Edouard Honoré, Paris, ca. 1817. Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze lithograph transfers, painted decoration, overglaze gilding. D. 9". (Courtesy, White House Collection/White House Historical Association.) 

  • Figure 5
    Figure 5

    Detail of the eagle lithograph on the plate illustrated in fig. 4. 

  • Figure 6
    Figure 6

    Certified copy of a consular document by Jean Rodolphe Wust concerning the estate of Jean Gaspard Schweitzer, the original signed in Geneva on August 3, 1814, and countersigned in Paris, September 3 and 5, 1814. (Courtesy, National Archives Microfilm Publication T1, roll 5, Dispatches from U.S. Consuls in Paris, 1790–1906, Record Group 59; National Archives, Washington, D.C.) Shortly after the original was signed, Isaac Cox Barnet made this official copy on consular stationery bearing the eagle lithograph. 

  • Figure 7
    Figure 7

    Detail of the eagle lithograph illustrated in fig. 6. 

  • Figure 8
    Figure 8

    Affidavit, certifying the authenticity of a French consular document, signed Isaac Cox Barnet, Consulate of the United States, Paris, December 28, 1816. (Courtesy, Prestwould Foundation, Clarksville, Virginia.) The letterhead on which this was written bears the lithograph of an eagle signed “W. A. Barnet del.” 

  • Figure 9
    Figure 9

    Detail of the eagle lithograph illustrated in fig. 8.

  • Figure 10
    Figure 10

    Certified Copy of a Request for Commission for the ship Volant, the original signed by Minister Plenipotentiary Joel Barlowe, September 1, 1811, this copy by Albert Gallatin, dated April 12, 1817. (Courtesy, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.) The lithograph, which is unsigned, is possibly by William Armand Barnet and/or Isaac Doolittle. 

  • Figure 11
    Figure 11

    Detail of the eagle lithograph illustrated in fig. 10.

  • Figure 12
    Figure 12

    Coiffures de 1823, reproduced in Comtesse Marie de Villermont, Histoire de la coiffure feminine (Brussels: Société Belge de Librairie, 1892), p. 795, pl. 553. 

  • Figure 13
    Figure 13

    Maria Hester Monroe (1802–1850), by Pietro Cardelli, Washington, D.C., ca. 1820. Plaster bas-relief. H. 19 1/4" x 15". (Courtesy of the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library, Fredericksburg, Virginia, JM76.200.) 

  • Figure 14
    Figure 14

    Cupid, Amelia White, Norfolk, Virginia, ca. 1829. Watercolor on paper. 9 3/4" x 8". (Colonial Williamsburg.)