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Lot 440

A good Swansea dish, circa 1815-17

1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,200 - £1,500

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A good Swansea dish, circa 1815-17

Of shaped rectangular form with gilded twig handles, locally painted by David Evans with bouquets of flowers loosely tied with lilac ribbons and arranged just inside the gilded rim, 28.2cm wide

Footnotes

For part of a similarly painted dessert service, including two dishes of this form, see E Morton Nance, The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw (1942), pl CXI. A similar dish was sold by Bonhams on 13 November 2013, lot 249

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