Lot 5
A Coalport part dessert service, painted by Percy Simpson
Circa 1909
9 August 2010, 11:00 BST
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Find your local specialistA Coalport part dessert service, painted by Percy Simpson
Circa 1909
Comprising eleven dessert plates with named views, the slightly scalloped circular plates with moulded solid gilt rims and central cartouche surrounded by raised and applied gilt foliate decoration, reserved before a rich cobalt blue ground, the views including plates titled 'View of the Thames', 'View of Windermere', 'Kilchum Castle', 'Hawthorden Castle' (restored), 'Windermere', 'Loch Lomond', 'Kyles of Bute', 'Views of Gibside House', 'Loch Katrine', 'Inverlochy Castle', one unknown, together with an oval dish portraying a 'View of the Thames', and two square shaped dishes, with views including 'View of Bamborough Castle' and 'Lake Lago'; plates 23cm diam, oval dish 31.5cm long, 20.5cm wide, square dish 28.5cm length, 23cm wide, all plates unsigned, blue print Coalport England mark, pattern number 2289, retailers mark for T. Goode & Co. London. (14)
Comprising eleven dessert plates with named views, the slightly scalloped circular plates with moulded solid gilt rims and central cartouche surrounded by raised and applied gilt foliate decoration, reserved before a rich cobalt blue ground, the views including plates titled 'View of the Thames', 'View of Windermere', 'Kilchum Castle', 'Hawthorden Castle' (restored), 'Windermere', 'Loch Lomond', 'Kyles of Bute', 'Views of Gibside House', 'Loch Katrine', 'Inverlochy Castle', one unknown, together with an oval dish portraying a 'View of the Thames', and two square shaped dishes, with views including 'View of Bamborough Castle' and 'Lake Lago'; plates 23cm diam, oval dish 31.5cm long, 20.5cm wide, square dish 28.5cm length, 23cm wide, all plates unsigned, blue print Coalport England mark, pattern number 2289, retailers mark for T. Goode & Co. London. (14)
Footnotes
Refer to plate 213, 'Coalport & Coalbrookedale Porcelains', by Geoffrey A. Godden, for similar example.