SERVICES THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A WILSON (HANLEY) EARTHENWARE COPPER-LUSTRE PART DINNER-SERVICE richly gilt with Classical figures at various pursuits on dark-copper lustre grounds within key-pattern borders and gilt rims, comprising:

Details
A WILSON (HANLEY) EARTHENWARE COPPER-LUSTRE PART DINNER-SERVICE richly gilt with Classical figures at various pursuits on dark-copper lustre grounds within key-pattern borders and gilt rims, comprising:
An oval soup-tureen and cover
A shaped rectangular vegetable-dish and cover (cover riveted)
Two small shaped rectangular vegetable-dishes and covers
Eight oval serving-dishes in sizes
Seven soup-plates (one with damage to rim, one with minute rim chip)
Thirteen dinner-plates (five with rims chips, one with large rim chip and one extensively repaired)
- (some rubbing to gilding), impressed marks, circa 1810
Provenance
William Dawson Esq. (1755-1829) of Settle, Yorkshire, Manchester Square, London and St. Leonard's Hill, Windsor, and thence by descent

Lot Essay

This service was recorded in the inventory of the contents of St. Leonard's Hill - renamed Sophia Lodge - after the death of William Dawson and, whilst the greater part of the service has remained in the possession of his descendants, a number of pieces are to be found in the Henry F. Dupont Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland and another piece is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Cf. Geoffrey A. Godden, An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain, p. 356, pl. 626 and the pair of ice-pails and covers, probably also originally forming part of this service, sold in these Rooms on 30 May 1977, lot 76

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