Lot Essay
For further pieces from the same Papineau service see the gift of Miss E. Dorothy Benson to the McCord Museum (M.968.31.2.7/20/6.1-2/12/and 10).
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A Davenport soft paste porcelain plate, c.1805-10
Details
Longport, Staffordshire, c.1805-10
A Davenport soft paste porcelain plate, c.1805-10
painted with a Gros Bec, the rim and decorated in gilt, inscribed on the reverse ‘Gros Bec, du Canada. Longport’
9 ¼in. (3.4cm.) diameter
(4)together with a demi-lune planter from the same service, similarly painted with a Gros Bec and decorated in gilt, 5 ¼in. (13.2cm.) high; and a Sevres-style blue-ground coffee can and saucer, the porcelain probably 18th century, spurious interlaced LS marks, titled ‘Tourterelle de Canada’ and ‘Pergaly Ray’ and ‘Pergaly Raye’, incised letters and numerals, each painted with birds in landscape, the borders with bouquets and gilt oeil de perdrix pattern
A Davenport soft paste porcelain plate, c.1805-10
painted with a Gros Bec, the rim and decorated in gilt, inscribed on the reverse ‘Gros Bec, du Canada. Longport’
9 ¼in. (3.4cm.) diameter
(4)together with a demi-lune planter from the same service, similarly painted with a Gros Bec and decorated in gilt, 5 ¼in. (13.2cm.) high; and a Sevres-style blue-ground coffee can and saucer, the porcelain probably 18th century, spurious interlaced LS marks, titled ‘Tourterelle de Canada’ and ‘Pergaly Ray’ and ‘Pergaly Raye’, incised letters and numerals, each painted with birds in landscape, the borders with bouquets and gilt oeil de perdrix pattern
Provenance
(the plate and demi-lune planter) The Papineau family, Montebello, Quebec.
Given by the estate of Mme Papineau to her friend Mrs Frothingham, Montreal (according to a typed label on the reverse).
Given by the estate of Mme Papineau to her friend Mrs Frothingham, Montreal (according to a typed label on the reverse).
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