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A FAMILLE ROSE 'ROCKEFELLER-PATTERN' PART-SERVICE
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Each piece enamelled with a different central scene of figures at leisure on terraces, in pavilion interiors and in rocky riverscapes, within violet diaper-pattern bands reserved with bird and landscape vignettes, and gilt scrolling foliage bands with similar vignettes, most pieces with pierced basket-work sides, comprising:
A pair of large bowls, one damaged, 9¼in. (23.5cm.) diam.
An oval basket with arch handles, 7½in. (19cm.) wide
An oval dish, 13¼in. (33.8cm.) wide
Another, 11 3/8in. (29cm.) wide
Another, border damage, 11in. (28cm.) wide
Another, 10in. (25.5cm.) wide
Four dinner plates, 9½in. (24cm.) diam.
A side plate, 8 5/8in. (22cm.) diam.
Another, 8¼in. (21cm.) diam.
A pair of side plates, 8in. (20cm.) diam.
A dessert plate, 6¼in. (16cm.) diam.
Six pudding plates, three with rim chips, 6in. (15.2cm.) diam.
minor rubbing to gilding (22)

Lot Essay

This service was known as 'Palace ware' in the early 20th Century and more recently as 'Rockefeller' pattern, after Governor Nelson Rockefeller who possessed a particularly fine and complete service. Andrew John Drummond, a General in the East India Company, also commissioned a service of this pattern for his family. For other pieces with this design, cf. J. A. Lloyd Hyde, op.cit., pp. 56 and 57, pl.IX; J. G. Phillips, op.cit., p.175, pl.80; M. Beurdeley, op.cit., p.163, cat. 64; D. S. Howard, op.cit., 1994, pp.138 and 139, no.147; and D. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., pp. 188 and 189. A group of similar dinner wares was sold in these Rooms, 13 May 1996, from the collection of a Nobleman

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