BY JENNENS AND BETTRIDGE, MID-19TH CENTURY

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED PAPIER-MACHE TRAY-ON-STAND
BY JENNENS AND BETTRIDGE, MID-19TH CENTURY
The lobed tray decorated with an urn surrounded by scrolling foliage with an airborne bird and a bird perched on a branch, with everted lip, the underside stamped 'JENNENS & BETTRIDGE'S LONDON', below a crown, on a conforming later stand with ring-turned tapering legs
19¼ in. (49 cm.) high; 31 in. (79 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (59.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The firm of Messrs. Aaron Jennens & T. H. Bettridge (fl. 1815-1864) were reputed for their manufacture of highly skilled papier-mâché wares. Jennens & Bettridge, orginally based in Birmingham, took over Henry Clay's workshops in 1816. They set up a London shop at 3 West Halkin Street, Belgravia in 1837 and opened offices in Paris and New York two years later.
Jennens & Bettridge served as 'Japanners in Ordinary' to George IV and exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition. A pair of vases bearing the brand of Jennens & Bettridge, acquired by Isabella Shepheard, Marchioness of Hertford (d. 1834) for Temple Newsam House, Leeds, was sold by the late Nicholas Meynell, Esq., in these Rooms, 15 April 1999, lot 31.

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