Lot Essay
Cf. Gaye Blake Roberts, Mason's, The First Two Hundred Years (London, 1996), p. 75, pl. 66 for a plate painted with the same pattern.
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CIRCA 1820, MOST PIECES WITH IMPRESSED MASON'S PATENT IRONSTONE CHINA MARK
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A Mason's Ironstone Imari part dinner-service
CIRCA 1820, MOST PIECES WITH IMPRESSED MASON'S PATENT IRONSTONE CHINA MARK
Printed and painted with panels of peonies below a dark blue border gilt with pendant leaves, comprising: four octagonal meat-dishes in sizes, fifteen soup-plates, thirteen dinner-plates, six side-plates (rubbing to gilding and slight surface scratches)
CIRCA 1820, MOST PIECES WITH IMPRESSED MASON'S PATENT IRONSTONE CHINA MARK
Printed and painted with panels of peonies below a dark blue border gilt with pendant leaves, comprising: four octagonal meat-dishes in sizes, fifteen soup-plates, thirteen dinner-plates, six side-plates (rubbing to gilding and slight surface scratches)
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