Lot Essay
A similar service is illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Caughley and Worcester Porcelains 1775-1800, London, 1969, ill. no. 112.
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CIRCA 1785-90, GILDER'S H MARK
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CAUGHLEY WHITE AND GILT PART DESSERT-SERVICE
CIRCA 1785-90, GILDER'S H MARK
Gilt with broad dot-pattern borders, centred by gilt bouquets, within gilt ovolo-pattern rims, comprising:
Two shaped-oval sauce-tureens, covers, four stands and two ladles
Two square dishes
Two fluted oval dishes
Twelve side-plates
CIRCA 1785-90, GILDER'S H MARK
Gilt with broad dot-pattern borders, centred by gilt bouquets, within gilt ovolo-pattern rims, comprising:
Two shaped-oval sauce-tureens, covers, four stands and two ladles
Two square dishes
Two fluted oval dishes
Twelve side-plates
Provenance
Removed from 28 St. James's Place, London to Althorp, Northamptonshire, in 1923 by Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975).
Literature
Perhaps W.B. Honey, Catalogue of the Porcelain and Pottery both Oriental and European in the Collection of Earl Spencer at Althorp, 1937, no. 918
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