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Lot 152

A Derby coffee can and saucer by William Billingsley
Circa 1795.

8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Derby coffee can and saucer by William Billingsley

Circa 1795.
The can with richly gilt clip handle, finely painted with pattern 351, with a vignette of 'Una' and the lion, seated in a woodland, named to the underside, within an oval gold panel, the gold ground fully painted by William Billingsley with generous sprays of garden flowers including hyacinths, roses and tulips, the underside of the saucer with bands of gold ornament, the saucer 14cm diam, crown, crossed batons and D marks and pattern numbers in blue (restored) (2)

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A matching cabaret tray and teapot are in the Charles Norman Collection, illustrated by Anthony Hoyte in his Supplementary Catalogue of 1999, pp 66-67. Pattern 351 is listed in the Derby factory records in the Tea Book part II as 'Ground of coloured flowers by Billingsley filled with gold' and the oval reserve as 'Cupid Disarmed by Bamford', see John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain (2002), p 298. The same pattern was clearly used for other figure subjects in the reserved panels. The figure painting has been variously attributed to James Bamford and John Brewer

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