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Lot 239

A significant Derby botanical plate painted by William Billingsley, circa 1790

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A significant Derby botanical plate painted by William Billingsley, circa 1790

Made in Chelsea style with a moulded 'feathered edge' picked out in brown and turquoise, painted with a leafy spray of yellow flowers and a smaller spray of purple flowers curving around the cavetto, 21.5cm diam, partially erased crown, crossed batons and D mark, long-tailed 7 in puce inside footrim, impressed G beside footrim

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Provenance
Kenneth C Klepser Collection
David Lyndsay Collection

This plate is illustrated alongside three other so-called 'Klepser' plates by W D John, William Billingsley (1968), illustration 27. Another was sold by Bonhams on 2 November 2011, lot 172. They are marked with a partially obscured crossed batons mark.

Two suggestions have been made with regard to the 'Klepser' group. Firstly, that they are part of a dozen plates referred to in the London Day Book for 1787 as being ordered by Lord Hawke. Secondly, that they are the Chelsea 'replacement' plates which Samuel Keys attributed to William Billingsley in his 'Recollections' of 1837. These possibilities are discussed by Stephen Mitchell, The Marks on Chelsea-Derby (2007), pp.130-3.

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