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Lot 296

A rare Nantgarw plate, circa 1818-20

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Nantgarw plate, circa 1818-20

The border crisply moulded with C-scrolls, unusually painted with a group of figures in a rural landscape, seated on barrels and eating from a table laid with a white cloth, a mother and her baby to one side, gilded rim, 21.8cm diam, impressed NANT-GARW C W

Footnotes

This plate belongs to a small but important group of locally-decorated Nantgarw porcelains with closely related decoration. See Roland Williams, Nantgarw Porcelain, fig 30 for another similar plate attributed to the hand of William Weston Young. For others attributed to Thomas Pardoe, see E Morton Nance, The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw (1942), pl CLXXXIVA, B and C. Another plate from the series was sold by Bonhams 9 March 2005, lot 268

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