A William Ridgway pale-blue-ground earthenware part dinner service
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A William Ridgway pale-blue-ground earthenware part dinner service
painted in colours with flowers issuing from a cornucopia, within scattered sprays of flowers and relief-moulded borders, comprising: a pair of sauce tureens, a tureen cover, three covers and three stands, an oval footed bowl, a tureen cover, eleven soup plates, twenty-three dinner plates, a meat dish with gravy well, an oval serving dish and pierced liner, and thirteen various oval serving dishes in sizes, painted pattern No.44, circa 1835 (damages throughout)See colour plate 1(a lot)
Sale room notice
Please note that this lot contains only three tureen covers and not four as stated in the catalogue.
Lot Essay
Cf. Geoffrey Godden, Ridgway Porcelains(1985), p. 152 & 153 for similar items.