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Lot 311

A rare Nantgarw dish of Mackintosh type
Circa 1818-20.

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

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A rare Nantgarw dish of Mackintosh type

Circa 1818-20.
Of cruciform shape, painted in London, probably in the workshops of Robbins and Randall, with a bird perched on a woody stump, with blue, pink and black plumage, the border richly gilded in neoclassical style with shells, scrolls and foliage, reserving four panels painted with colourful flowers, 23.5cm diam, impressed NANT-GARW CW (uniform surface crazing with fine starcrack visible on underside only)

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A number of Nantgarw services with this kind of decoration are known. Three are discussed by W D John, Nantgarw Porcelain, Supplement Number Two. All are thought to have been ordered by Mortlocks from the decorators Robbins and Randall of Barnsbury Street, Islington, the bird painting probably by Thomas Martin Randall. See Welsh Ceramics in Context (2003), p 204. Cruciform dishes are only very rarely found with Mackintosh style decoration

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