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Lot 358

An important and very rare pair of Derby dining room chamberpots and covers, circa 1785-90

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £7,250 inc. premium

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An important and very rare pair of Derby dining room chamberpots and covers, circa 1785-90

With gently domed covers surmounted by ring finials picked out in gold, gilded opposite the handles with the monogram 'MHBH' flanked by a thistle and a rose, a band of floral garlands pencilled in black and washed in green suspended from the bright turquoise borders, the covers with full flower sprays also washed in green, the painting probably by William Billingsley, 17.5cm high, crown, crossed batons and D marks in puce, impressed C inside footrim (a few minute patches of wear, one knop with fine crack) (4)

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Marquis of Bute
David Graham Collection

Illustrated by John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain (1980), colour pl 20, p 106

These are said to have been made for Mararetta Henrietta, daughter of Johann Zacharias Beck of Saxe Gotha, who married Sir George Buchan-Hepburn in 1781.

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