Lot Essay
Cf. W.D. John and Katherine Coombes, Nantgarw Porcelain, Supplement Number Two, "The Mackintosh Services with Exotic Bird Decoration" (Newport, 1969), illustration 5.
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CIRCA 1817-18, TITLED IN IRON-RED TO THE REVERSE OF EACH, RETAILER'S MARKS IN IRON-RED FOR JBRADLEY & CO. 47 PALL MALL, LONDON
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Two Nantgarw (London-decorated) plates
CIRCA 1817-18, TITLED IN IRON-RED TO THE REVERSE OF EACH, RETAILER'S MARKS IN IRON-RED FOR JBRADLEY & Co. 47 Pall Mall, London
Almost certainly painted in the atelier of Robins and Randall, after Francois Levaillant, the first painted to the centre with a vignette of The fork-tail & Indian Butcher-Bird, balanced on the branch of a tree-tump and in flight, the second painted to the centre with a vignette of The least Butcher Bird, each within a C-scroll-moulded border decorated with cartouches of pink, purple and blue garden flowers and cartouches of fruits on a bed of leaves, within a scalloped gilt dentil rim (small patches of wear)
Both 8¼ in. (21 cm.) wide (2)
CIRCA 1817-18, TITLED IN IRON-RED TO THE REVERSE OF EACH, RETAILER'S MARKS IN IRON-RED FOR JBRADLEY & Co. 47 Pall Mall, London
Almost certainly painted in the atelier of Robins and Randall, after Francois Levaillant, the first painted to the centre with a vignette of The fork-tail & Indian Butcher-Bird, balanced on the branch of a tree-tump and in flight, the second painted to the centre with a vignette of The least Butcher Bird, each within a C-scroll-moulded border decorated with cartouches of pink, purple and blue garden flowers and cartouches of fruits on a bed of leaves, within a scalloped gilt dentil rim (small patches of wear)
Both 8¼ in. (21 cm.) wide (2)
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