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A important Nantgarw plate by Thomas Pardoe Circa 1818-20.
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Find your local specialistA important Nantgarw plate by Thomas Pardoe
From the Wyndham Lewis service, painted with a spray of nasturtiums and stocks and a smaller rose sprig, within a gilded band of scrollwork and quatrelobed lattice panels, the wide pink border with C-scroll moulding, painted with convolvulus sprigs alternating with relief-moulded floral garlands picked out in white and gold, 22cm diam, impressed NANT-GARW CW, titled 'Nasturtium and Stock' to reverse in Pardoe's distinctive hand (a few minute patches of wear to the gilding)
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One sauce tureen from this service is inscribed in Pardoe's hand 'W Lewis, Esq M.P., Green Meadow 1822' This is illustrated by E Morton Nance, The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw, pl CLXXVB and C. The service is discussed at p 403 where it is stated that most of the service is now the property of the Marquess of Bute. Wyndham Lewis of Green Meadow, Whitchurch, near Cardiff was a partner in the Dowlais Iron Works and MP for Cardiff. In 1815, he married Mary Anne Evans, whose second husband was Disraeli. See also Roland Williams, Nantgarw Porcelain 1813-1822, fig 38, p 19 for a shell dish of the service and W D John, Nantgarw Porcelain (1948), Coloured Illustration 50B for a square dish. A selection of Flight, Barr and Barr and Coalport porcelains from wedding services of Mary Anne Lewis and Benjamin Disraeli were sold in these rooms on 12 September 2007, lots 226-229.
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