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A pair of important Nantgarw plates, circa 1818-20
29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
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A pair of important Nantgarw plates, circa 1818-20
With shaped and ungilded rims, locally painted by Thomas Pardoe with elaborate sprays of garden flowers including pink roses and auricula surrounded by scattered sprigs, one with a blue moth in flight, 21.7cm diam, one with paper label indicating provenance from the Melin Griffith service (2)
Footnotes
These plates are of the finest quality Nantgarw porcelain and are painted with the very best of Thomas Pardoe's floral decoration. The Melin Griffith tinplate works at Whitchurch near Cardiff was run and later owned by Richard Blakemore. Blakemore is included in the list of suggested business associates of William Weston Young, providers of the £1,100 used to restart the Nantgarw factory in 1817, see E Morton Nance, The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw (1942), p.363 and W D John, Nantgarw Porcelain (1948), p.25. A number of businessmen associated with the factory are known to have received a service of locally decorated Nantgarw. These include Edward Edmunds, landlord of the factory site and recipient of no less than three tea and coffee services, one of which was sold at Bonhams on 2 November 2011, lot 242 and Wyndham Lewis MP, one of the ten county gentlemen who provided further funds in 1818-19. His dessert service was also painted by Pardoe and a plate from the service was sold by Bonhams on 2 November 2015, lot 208.