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Lot 213
A pair of Swansea pottery botanical supper dishes Circa 1805.
8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £600 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA pair of Swansea pottery botanical supper dishes
Circa 1805.
Of fan shape, one painted by Thomas Pardoe with a specimen of 'Vernal Bulbocodium', within a brown line rim, 34.1cm wide, impressed SWANSEA, incised numeral 4, title in Pardoe's distinctive hand (restoration to one corner), the other probably by William Weston Young with a specimen of 'Tuberous Rooted Limodorum', the rim and inner border picked out in brown, 34.7cm wide, incised numeral 2, title in the fine script associated with William Weston Young (minute patch of wear to the brown line rim only) (2)
Of fan shape, one painted by Thomas Pardoe with a specimen of 'Vernal Bulbocodium', within a brown line rim, 34.1cm wide, impressed SWANSEA, incised numeral 4, title in Pardoe's distinctive hand (restoration to one corner), the other probably by William Weston Young with a specimen of 'Tuberous Rooted Limodorum', the rim and inner border picked out in brown, 34.7cm wide, incised numeral 2, title in the fine script associated with William Weston Young (minute patch of wear to the brown line rim only) (2)
Footnotes
Botanical painting by William Weston Young is only rarely encountered on Swansea pottery. For an example of his later botanical work on Swansea porcelain, see lot 244 in this sale
