A rare Nantgarw plate Circa 1818-20.
A rare Nantgarw plate
Circa 1818-20.
Painted in bright colours with three birds beside a leafy branch, three moths in flight above, the border with six other insects, probably by Thomas Pardoe, within a shaped and ungilded rim, 21.5cm diam, impressed NANT-GARW CW
Sold for £1,680 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Illustrated by Rowland Williams, Nantgarw Porcelain 1813-1822, fig 21, p 14. A similar plate is illustrated by E Morton Nance, The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw (1942), plate CLXXXIIIE. See also WD John, Nantgarw Porcelain (1948), Illustration 54

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics


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