Referred to as the “Quaker Farmer” pattern, this tea set design was created by Pennsylvania Quaker, Mary Hollingsworth, in 1797 and depicts a romanticized pastoral scene featuring what is believed to be a family member leaning on a cow amongst rolling hills and a farmhouse in the distance. She sent her pencil and ink drawing to China with her merchant brother Henry to have it transformed into a custom tea service. The Quaker Farmer design became regionally popular, particularly among the Mid-Atlantic Quaker community. Quaker women were unique in early America for holding positions of power, in some cases even power over men, due to their progressive beliefs of gender equality. One such woman was Elizabeth Jefferis who ordered what is now the largest known intact service of this design for her 1803 wedding to Samuel Shipley, the brother of Joseph, who built Rockwood. On the coffee pot’s reverse side is a 1939 notation reading “Lovesoft China set … Sent to Elizabeth Shipley. Set sank in Delaware. Underwater for th [torn but presumably ‘three’] years – then raised and china delivered.”