A Mason's miniature dark-blue-ground part tea service

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A Mason's miniature dark-blue-ground part tea service
painted with a bouquet of roses, poppies and other garden flowers within a gilt roundel, below alternate puce vingettes of shrubs issuing from rockwork within scrolling-gilt cartouche and iron-red foliage within gilt roundels, reserved on a dark-blue-ground gilt with scrolls, comprising: a teapot and cover, a milk jug and two cups and saucers, and a plate, printed mark, circa 1820; a New Hall dark-blue-ground bowl, bat printed in black with two buccolic scenes, painted in colours, within gilt ovals, flanked by two further coloured prints of fruit within roundels, below gilt diamond and husk ornament, the interior with a named print for Fenwell Hall, pattern 159, circa 1815 (a lot)

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Lot Essay

The milk jug bears a rare printed mark 'Patent Ironstone China around circular representation of the Royal Arms.Cf. Geoffrey A. Godden, Mason's China and the Ironstone Wares (1980), p. 151, pl. 211, for a ewer and basin of the same pattern.
For a example of New Hall pattern 1159, Cf. David Holgate, New Hall (1971), p. 208, pl. 330.

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