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Lot 436

An important Nantgarw plate by Thomas Pardoe, circa 1818-20

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,500 - £2,000

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An important Nantgarw plate by Thomas Pardoe, circa 1818-20

From the Wyndham Lewis service, painted with a spray of nasturtiums and stocks and a smaller rose sprig within a gilded rococo band, the wide pink C-scroll border painted with convolvulus sprigs, the moulded floral garlands picked out in white and gold, 22cm diam, impressed NANT-GARW CW, titled 'Nasturtium and Stock' to reverse in Pardoe's distinctive hand

Footnotes

One sauce tureen from this service is inscribed in Pardoe's hand 'W Lewis, Esq M.P., Green Meadow 1822' This is illustrated by E Morton Nance, The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw, pl CLXXVB and C. The service is discussed at p.403 where it is stated that most of the service is now the property of the Marquess of Bute. Wyndham Lewis of Green Meadow, Whitchurch, near Cardiff was a partner in the Dowlais Iron Works and MP for Cardiff. In 1815 he married Mary Anne Evans, whose second husband was Disraeli.

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