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Lot 341

A very rare Nantgarw spill vase, circa 1818-20

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A very rare Nantgarw spill vase, circa 1818-20

Of cylindrical form with a characteristic crisply turned foot, painted by Thomas Pardoe with a group of five garden birds perched in a bush, including two goldfinches, a greenfinch and a thrush, the reverse gilded with a floral sprig and insects in flight, gilt line borders, 11.3cm high

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Provenance
BA Williams Collection
Sir David John KCMG

Thomas Pardoe's range of bird painting included bullfinches, goldfinches, greenfinches, pheasants, parrots and some others which are more difficult to identify. A very similar vase painted with parrots is illustrated by E Morton Nance, The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw (1942), pl.CLXXXIII D, and another was sold by Bonhams on 3 November 2016, lot 299. For pheasants on a similar vase, see W D John, Nantgarw Porcelain Album (1975), illustration 34.

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