A COALPORT 'JEWELLED' GOLD-GROUND BELLOWS-SHAPED BOX AND COVER

CIRCA 1895, GREEN PRINTED CROWNED MARK, IRON-RED PATTERN NO. V1929 AND 29, RETAILER'S MARK FOR OVINGTON BROTHERS

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A COALPORT 'JEWELLED' GOLD-GROUND BELLOWS-SHAPED BOX AND COVER
Circa 1895, green printed crowned mark, iron-red pattern no. V1929 and 29, retailer's mark for Ovington Brothers
The flat tear-drop shaped cover set with a central 'gem' stone within a foliate bezel enriched with ruby and blue 'jewels', the reserve, handles and nozzle with graduated turquoise 'jewels' on the embossed gold ground, the side with faux gilt studs and a band of 'ruby' centered rosettes, the interior enriched in gilt
4¾in. (12.1cm.) wide

Lot Essay

See Michael Messenger, Coalport 1795-1926, Suffolk, 1995, p. 369-370, pl. 327 for a similar bellows bracket found at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum and Trust, Coalport China and for a discussion that names boxes made in this shape as 'amongst the more lavishly decorated of the Company's output during the early 1890's...and may well have been part of the Company's preparation for the World Fair of 1893.'

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