AN ASHWORTH'S REAL IRONSTONE CHINA COBALT BLUE-GROUND PART DINNER SERVICE

1875-1890, BLACK PRINTED ROYAL ARMS AND IMPRESSED UPERCASE MARKS

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AN ASHWORTH'S REAL IRONSTONE CHINA COBALT BLUE-GROUND PART DINNER SERVICE
1875-1890, black printed Royal Arms and impressed upercase marks
Printed in black and enriched enemel colors, the center in the famille rose palette with a vase issuing peonies amidst other flowering plants and rockwork, the cavetto with alternate brown and red panels over fretwork and cloud pattern, the border with flowers in canted squares and with mon reserved on the dark blue ground further reserved, enameled and gilt with flower sprays, comprising:
A soup tureen, cover and stand, 14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) wide, the stand
A sauce-tureen, cover and stand, 8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) wide, the stand
A sauce-boat and stand, 5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) wide, the stand
Two footed oval vegetable dishes and covers, 11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) wide
Six graduated platters, 21 5/8 in. (55 cm.) long, the longest
Twelve dinner plates, 10 in. (25.4 cm.) diameter
Nine soup plates, 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) diameter
Twelve dessert plates, 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) diameter
Twelve side plates, 7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) diameter (63)

Lot Essay

See Geoffrey A. Godden, Godden's Guiide to Mason's China and the Ironstone Wares, The Antique Collector's Club, 1980, p. 211, fig. 306 for a soup plate decorated with the same border and cavetto patterns, the center with a stylized pentafoil flower. The central pattern on the present service was also used at Mason's.

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