22nd Nov, 2023 11:00
European Works of Art
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A SET OF THREE NANTGARW PLATES, CIRCA 1820
of Mackintosh service type, London decorated, each painted after François Levaillant (1753-1824) with a vignette of a bird amidst foliage, gilt foliate and shell borders with C-scrolls reserving four flower sprays, impressed 'Nant-garw C.W.', 24.5cm diameter
Provenance: Ellen Willmott (1858-1934); her sale, Warley Place, Great Warley, 30 May-5 June 1935, three from a set of four offered as either lot 1369 through to 1373 and acquired by her nephew Robert George Berkeley (1898-1969); Berkeley family collections, Spetchley Park, Worcestershire.
Literature: Spetchley Park Inventory, 1949, 'Three Nantagarw plates, with gilt shell and flower borders, the centres painted with game birds; impressed mark' in the Drawing Room.
Three Nantgarw services with this kind of decoration are recorded, discussed by W.D. John in Nantgarw Porcelain, Supplement Number Two. The present plates probably come from a service belonging to the Priest Richards family of 'Plâs Newydd', near Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, gifted in 1880 to Ella Priest Richards on the occasion of her marriage to The Mackintosh of Mackintosh of Moy Hall, Inverness, the service dispersed by about 1900. All three services are thought to have been ordered by Mortlocks from the decorators Robbins and Randall of Barnsbury Street, Islington, the birds painted by Thomas Martin Randall.
Sold for £3,000
of Mackintosh service type, London decorated, each painted after François Levaillant (1753-1824) with a vignette of a bird amidst foliage, gilt foliate and shell borders with C-scrolls reserving four flower sprays, impressed 'Nant-garw C.W.', 24.5cm diameter
Provenance: Ellen Willmott (1858-1934); her sale, Warley Place, Great Warley, 30 May-5 June 1935, three from a set of four offered as either lot 1369 through to 1373 and acquired by her nephew Robert George Berkeley (1898-1969); Berkeley family collections, Spetchley Park, Worcestershire.
Literature: Spetchley Park Inventory, 1949, 'Three Nantagarw plates, with gilt shell and flower borders, the centres painted with game birds; impressed mark' in the Drawing Room.
Three Nantgarw services with this kind of decoration are recorded, discussed by W.D. John in Nantgarw Porcelain, Supplement Number Two. The present plates probably come from a service belonging to the Priest Richards family of 'Plâs Newydd', near Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, gifted in 1880 to Ella Priest Richards on the occasion of her marriage to The Mackintosh of Mackintosh of Moy Hall, Inverness, the service dispersed by about 1900. All three services are thought to have been ordered by Mortlocks from the decorators Robbins and Randall of Barnsbury Street, Islington, the birds painted by Thomas Martin Randall.
Auction: European Works of Art, 22nd Nov, 2023
