Lot Essay
For other plates with the same border, also painted by Baxter in 1808 and 1809, see M. Messenger, Coalport 1795-1926, Suffolk, 1995, p. 16., color pl. 5, and p. 134, pl. 83 and 84.
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DATED 1808-09, SIGNED BY THOMAS BAXTER
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A SET OF EIGHT COALPORT PORCELAIN DINNER PLATES AND THREE SOUP PLATES
DATED 1808-09, SIGNED BY THOMAS BAXTER
Painted to the center with fruit and vegetable specimens including a cos lettuce, an orange, a lemon and gooseberries, within gilt scrolled acanthus borders
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) wide, the soup plates
DATED 1808-09, SIGNED BY THOMAS BAXTER
Painted to the center with fruit and vegetable specimens including a cos lettuce, an orange, a lemon and gooseberries, within gilt scrolled acanthus borders
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) wide, the soup plates
Provenance
Acquired from J. Rochelle Thomas, New York, December 1965.
Literature
D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, vol. IV, 1992, pp. 186-187, no. 197.
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