Lot 138
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A WILLIAM IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES-STYLE PORCELAIN TURQUOISE GROUND ENCRIER
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A WILLIAM IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES-STYLE PORCELAIN TURQUOISE GROUND ENCRIER

ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD HOLMES BALDOCK, CIRCA 1830-40, THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY AND REDECORATED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY, THE ORMOLU CIRCA 1835-40, SEVRES MARKS TO THE BOWL AND STAND

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A WILLIAM IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES-STYLE PORCELAIN TURQUOISE GROUND ENCRIER
ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD HOLMES BALDOCK, CIRCA 1830-40, THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY AND REDECORATED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY, THE ORMOLU CIRCA 1835-40, SEVRES MARKS TO THE BOWL AND STAND
The well formed form an oviform bowl painted with fruit and flowers within gilt scroll cartouches, applied with a gilt-metal pierced rim and liner cast with scrolling leaves, the stand formed from a shaped oval feuille-de-choux stand painted with a vignettes of exotic birds in branches and flowers below gilt dentil bands enclosing turquoise-ground sections, with a pierced gilt-metal rim applied with wyvern biting a stand cast with leaves and flowers forming the support for the well, the stand supported by a gilt-metal rim with scrolling leaves and four feet cast with masks, damages and repaired to the well
7 in. (18 cm.) high approx.
Provenance
Purchased by George Byng Esq. M.P. (d.1847) and by descent.
Literature
St. James's Square 1847 Inventory, 'BACK DRAWING ROOM a Blue Sevres China Ink tray and 2 cups mounted ormolu'.
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Lot Essay

With its stylized 'draco' finials and the distinctive English chasing of the mounts, this encrier can be confidently attributed to the English marchand-mercier Edward Holmes Baldock (d.1846). Appointed 'Purveyor of China, Earthenware and Glass to William IV' Byng is known to have patronised Baldock as early as 1829.

A pair of Sèvres porcelain pots á oille du Roi of circa 1756-79, supplied by Baldock to Walter, 5th Duke of Buccleuch around 1830 with closely related 'draco' mounts, was sold anonymously at Christie's London, 9 December 1993, lot 17.

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