A pair of Derby botanical ice-pails and covers painted by William 'Quaker' Pegg

CIRCA 1813-20, IRON-RED CROWNED D AND CROSSED BATONS MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS

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A pair of Derby botanical ice-pails and covers painted by William 'Quaker' Pegg
Circa 1813-20, iron-red crowned D and crossed batons marks and inscriptions
The first ice-pail painted with botanical studies of Single Pink Peony, & Auricula Ursa., Martagon Lily, & Everlasting Pea., the second painted with Great Sunflower, & Elder Scented Iris., Norfolk Island Passion-flower, & Convolvulus Minor., one cover painted with Double Yellow Rose., Birds Eye., Province Rose., Yellow Azalia (sic), the other with Oriental Poppy., Yellow Jessamine.(sic.), Dutch Honey-Suckle., Blue Periwinkle., all named in red script to the bases and the undersides of the covers, the angular handles with foliage terminals and the covers with gilt radiating foliage and acorn finials enriched in gilding, the rims similarly enriched (liners lacking, one ice-pail with two long cracks, one with two short cracks and crack to footrim, one cover with finial re-stuck, all with wear to gilding)
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sold in these Rooms, 7 June 1976, lot 162.

Literature

John Twitchett, op. cit. (1980), p. 237, pl. 307.

Lot Essay

William 'Quaker' Pegg (1775-1851), the self-taught botanical draftsman and china-painter, first worked at Derby as a painter between 1796 and 1801, before destroying all his sketchbooks and preparatory work and leaving china-painting in order to lead a more devout life. In 1813 he returned to painting on porcelain, and began to rebuild the body of work he had destroyed, before finally quitting to run a small business in 1820.

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