MOST EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE PLATES IMPRESSED WITH THE LETTER P OR 5, MOST OF THE WARES WITH VARIANT MODEL NUMBERS

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AN EXTENSIVE ENGLISH POTTERY TRANSFER-PRINTED BLUE AND WHITE PART DINNER SERVICE
MOST EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE PLATES IMPRESSED WITH THE LETTER P OR 5, MOST OF THE WARES WITH VARIANT MODEL NUMBERS
Printed with a fantasy abbey amidst flowering plants, the border with sprays and cartouches of similar flowers, including: an oblong octagonal well-and-tree platter; seven graduated oblong octagonal platters; a square footed salad bowl; four square vegetable dishes and covers; two circular sauce-tureens, covers and stands; seventeen dinner plates; five soup plates; ten dessert plates; and ten side plates; together with nine Copeland Spode 'Italian' pattern butter-pats; four Spode soup plates; a Spode oval sauce-tureen, cover, stand and ladle; an Enoch Wood 'English Scenery' pattern sauceboat; and a Semi China 'English Scenery' pattern two-handled soup-tureen and cover, printed with a view of Fonthill Abbey
18¼in. (46.3 cm.) wide, the largest (85)

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Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, also known as Beckford's Folly, attracted great public interest between the years 1810-1825. William Thomas Beckford commissioned James Wyatt to build a large Gothic abbey with a 275 foot tower as a residence for him to live in on his Fonthill Estate.

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