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A WORCESTER PORCELAIN (FLIGHT, BARR & BARR) ARMORIAL APPLE-GREEN GROUND PART SERVICE

CIRCA 1824, IMPRESSED CROWNED FBB MARKS AND IRON-RED ROYAL PORCELAIN WORKS WORCESTER AND COVENTRY, LONDON

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A WORCESTER PORCELAIN (FLIGHT, BARR & BARR) ARMORIAL APPLE-GREEN GROUND PART SERVICE
CIRCA 1824, IMPRESSED CROWNED FBB MARKS AND IRON-RED ROYAL PORCELAIN WORKS WORCESTER AND COVENTRY, LONDON
Each finely painted and enriched with the arms of Todd quartering Plowes, the crest of a a fox passant above, within gilt scrollwork and rose garlands, the gadrooned rims enriched in gilt, comprising two two-handled soup tureens, covers and stands; three two-handled sauce-tureens covers and stands; three shaped rectangular vegetable dishes and covers; thirteen graduated shaped oval platters in seven sizes; twenty-seven soup plates; fifty-six dinner plates; twenty-five dessert plates
22 in. (55.8 cm.) wide, the largest platter

Provenance

Probably Joseph Todd, circa 1924.

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Lot Essay

The present coat of arms is that of Joseph Todd Esq. (c.1767-1835). A very successful haberdasher, he retired to his house Twickenham Park as a millionaire in 1822. He was granted this coat-of-arms on 12 December 1823, and this service was likely ordered in celebration of this grant.

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