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A garniture of three W(***) bough pots and covers circa 1800-1805
14 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,120 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA garniture of three W(***) bough pots and covers
circa 1800-1805
Of D-shape supported by three gilded bun feet, the interiors with stem-supports, the covers pierced, each painted with a large panel of figures within extensive rural landscapes, including a hunter with his gun and two dogs, flanked by smaller landscapes and edged with fine neoclassical gilding, 16.5 and 14.3cm high, two smaller impressed W(***) (two cracked, two covers with damage and losses) (6)
Of D-shape supported by three gilded bun feet, the interiors with stem-supports, the covers pierced, each painted with a large panel of figures within extensive rural landscapes, including a hunter with his gun and two dogs, flanked by smaller landscapes and edged with fine neoclassical gilding, 16.5 and 14.3cm high, two smaller impressed W(***) (two cracked, two covers with damage and losses) (6)
Footnotes
Provenance: Godden Reference Collection. The W(***) group of porcelains are discussed by Geoffrey Godden, Staffordshire Porcelain (1983), Appendix VI. Bough pots with related decoration are shown at figs 717, 727 and 728 and such painting may have been done at the Mansfield workshops of William Billingsley
