A Nantgarw shell-shaped dish

CIRCA 1820, IMPRESSED NANT-GARW C.W MARK

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A Nantgarw shell-shaped dish
Circa 1820, impressed Nant-Garw C.W mark
Painted by Thomas Pardoe, the centre with three birds among shrubs and insects within a border of brightly coloured butterflies and a beetle, gilt-line rim (rubbing to one wing and to gilt rim)
8½in. (21.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Cf. W.D. John, op. cit. (1948), pl. 56C, and the square dish from this service in the Sir Leslie Joseph sale, Sotheby's, 15 May 1992, lot 487.

See illustration on preceding page.

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