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Lot 27*

A Pinxton teacup, coffee cup and saucer, circa 1796-1800

29 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,785 inc. premium

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A Pinxton teacup, coffee cup and saucer, circa 1796-1800

Painted in puce monochrome with circular landscape panels titled 'Carmarthen Castle, Wales', 'Near Matlock, Derbyshire' and 'On the River Blackwater', probably by William Billingsley, the yellow grounds painted en grisaille with classical urns and swags, gilded formal borders around the rims, saucer 13.7cm diam, titles and pattern number P113 in red (3)

Footnotes

Provenance
Twinight Collection

Exhibited
Billingsley Mansfield Exhibition, Mansfield Museum 1999, No.40.

A teapot and cover and a milk jug of the same pattern is illustrated by C Barry Sheppard, Pinxton Porcelain (1996), col. pls.11 and 18, and another trio by N D Gent, The Patterns and Shapes of the Pinxton China Factory (1996), p.58. Another teapot and cover of the same shape in the Victoria and Albert Museum is painted in very similar style and is illustrated by Anneke Bambery, William Billingsley in Derbyshire, Welsh Ceramics in Context (2003), Pt.1, p.167; it is inscribed 'B26' and 'Billingsley Mansfeild [sic]' inside the cover. The transposing of the letters 'e' and 'i' often occurs on Mansfield and Torksey pieces and is an error which Billingsley is known to have made on a number of occasions. The Pinxton pattern number 'P113' on the present lot suggests that it was painted at Pinxton, prior to Billingsley's departure to Mansfield. A similar trio was sold by Bonhams on 20 November 2019, lot 289

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