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A PAIR OF ARMORIAL GUGLETS
A PAIR OF ARMORIAL GUGLETS

CIRCA 1790

细节
A PAIR OF ARMORIAL GUGLETS
CIRCA 1790
Decorated front and back with the arms of Bootle, the shoulder with a band featuring parrots perched in a band of scrolling foliage and cartouches centering lion crests and monograms
10 in. (25.3 cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

Made for Mrs. Richard Wilbraham, née Bootle, after the service her father, Sir Thomas Bootle, Chancellor to the Prince of Wales, had ordered in about 1730. She had her father's tea set copied by Derby, and the dinner service done in China. D.S. Howard (op. cit., vol. II, p. 182) explains all, illustrating this mug along with a mug of the earlier service (in which the parrots are olive-green) and quoting correspondence in the Derby archives from Mary Wilbraham, who wrote in 1787 regarding some "...dishes made to match some foreign...Tea China with arms etc..."