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Bonhams sale, 8 April 2009, lot 304
Twinight Collection
The Swansea dessert service decorated for the Biddulph family by the Bradley workshop in London consisted of over 100 pieces painted with named topographical views. Philip Ballard was taken on as an apprentice by the workshop in 1815. He was from Malvern and appears to have had connections with the Biddulph family who lived at nearby Ledbury Park. Many of the views on the service resemble examples of Ballard's watercolours and drawings and he is likely to have been the artist of many. In 1821, the Bradley premises in Pall Mall were renumbered from 54 to 47. Some pieces from the service bear Bradley script marks and these are found with both addresses, indicating that the service was decorated at around the time of the change. Most of the service is now in the Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. See Roger Edmundson's paper 'Billingsley, Randall and Rose', Welsh Ceramics in Context, Part I, p.203. Stanmer Park is on the outskirts of Brighton, the house built by Nicholas Dubois for the Pelham family in 1722.