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Lot 304

A Swansea plate from the Biddulph Service
Circa 1815-17.

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

Sold for £2,880 inc. premium

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A Swansea plate from the Biddulph Service

Circa 1815-17.
Painted in the London workshops of J Bradley and Co, possibly by Philip Ballard, with a view of 'Stanmer Park, Sussex. The Seat of the Earl of Chichester', the comfortable classical house set in wooded parkland, within gilded formal borders, 20.8cm diam (slight wear to gilded border)

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Philip Ballard was taken on as an apprentice by the London decorator John Bradley in 1815. Ballard was from Malvern and appears to have had connections with the Biddulph family of nearby Ledbury Park. The dessert service decorated for the Biddulph family by Bradley consisted of over 100 pieces. Many of the views resemble examples of Ballard's watercolours and drawings and he is likely to have been the artist of many. In 1821, the Bradley premises in Pall Mall were renumbered from 54 to 47. Some pieces from the service bear Bradley script marks and these are found with both addresses, indicating that the service was decorated at around the time of the change. Most of the service is now in the Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. See Roger Edmundson's paper 'Billingsley, Randall and Rose', Welsh Ceramics in Context, Part I, p 203. A plate from the service was sold in these rooms on 5 December 2007, lot 499

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