Details
A NANTGARW (LONDON-DECORATED) INSCRIBED MATT-BLUE-GROUND CABINET-CUP AND SAUCER with the initials JW on a gilt-ground oblong octagonal panel within garlands of flowers suspended by a central gilt ring and held at the angles by doves, within a shaped panel reserved on a matt-blue ground gilt with trellis and flowerhead ornament, with gilt-scale snake handle, the interior and centre to the saucer with bands of pink roses between gilt borders, the undersides inscribed in gilt Welch Porcelain. Asser. (very slight rubbing to gilding of saucer), circa 1820
Provenance
W.D. John Collection
Literature
W.D. John, The Nantgarw Porcelain Album, no. 72