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Lot 13*

A Derby plate, circa 1825

29 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Derby plate, circa 1825

Painted with four figures snowballing in a wintry landscape with bare trees set against a cloudy sky, probably by William Corden after a London-decorated Nantgarw plate by J Plant, the border with figures within a continuous rural landscape, the shaped rim with dentil gilding, 23.5cm diam, circular Bloor Derby mark printed in red

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Provenance
Twinight Collection

The shaped rim, border design and snowballing scene on this plate all appear to have been copied by the Derby factory from Nantgarw examples. The twelve-lobed rim is a Nantgarw feature and the decoration occurs on London-decorated Nantgarw plates. John Haslem, The Old Derby China Factory (1876), pp.207-08 discusses the Derby service made for Lord Ongley and records that the decoration was '...copied from Nantgarw plates, which had been decorated in London at Sim's establishment, from whom Mr Bloor had purchased them shortly before. The figure subjects were painted by a clever artist called Plant...and one was a winter piece with figures snowballing.' A Nantgarw example of the scene is illustrated by W D John, Nantgarw Album (1975), illustration 1 and the Ongley service version by John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain (2002), colour pl.202. The snowballing scene on the present lot is almost identical to the Ongley example, even down to the colours of the costumes worn by the figures. The border is different but is also taken from a London-decorated plate, see the Nantgarw example sold by Bonhams on 3 November 2016, lot 282.

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