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A Coalport vase painted by Thomas Baxter, dated 1804 image 1
A Coalport vase painted by Thomas Baxter, dated 1804 image 2
Lot 229

A Coalport vase painted by Thomas Baxter, dated 1804

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Coalport vase painted by Thomas Baxter, dated 1804

Of classical form, painted in London by Thomas Baxter in colours with a circular panel of a lady seated in a rural landscape, her knitting in her right hand, a windmill in the distance and a poppy growing by a fence beside her, reserved on a red and gold striped ground within elaborate gilded borders, 18.4cm high, inscribed 'T Baxter 1804' on underside (minute chip, some wear to gilding)

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Provenance:
Sold by Phillips, 17 September 1997, lot 318.

The same subject is found on the bough pot from a garniture reputedly purchased by Lord Nelson with decoration based on Emma Hamilton's 'attitudes' and inscribed 'T Baxter 1802'. See W D John, Swansea Porcelain (1958), Illustration 69.

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