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Lot 413

A fine Nantgarw dish, circa 1818-20

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A fine Nantgarw dish, circa 1818-20

Of cruciform shape, painted in London with a spray of flowers and fruit, including grapes, peaches, roses, cornflowers and daffodils, the green-ground border reserving panels painted with more formal sprays and edged with raised and tooled gold flowers and scrolls, 23cm diam, impressed NANT-GARW CW (slither chip to footrim)

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Another dish with closely related decoration was sold by Bonhams 5 December 2007, lot 500 and is illustrated by WD John, Nantgarw Porcelain Supplement No.1 (1956), Illus.1. The centre sprays are certainly by the same hand, many of the fruits and flowers in the central spray being almost identical on both examples. The decoration may be attributed to the Powell workshop as a similarly-painted coffee cup and saucer in The National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff, bears the distinctive gilded border found on marked Powell pieces. See Oliver Fairclough, The London China Trade 1800-1830, ECC Trans, Vol.16, Pt.2, p.209. The quality of the painting and gilding represent the very best of London decoration on Welsh porcelain.

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