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Lot 48*

A Swansea plate from the Biddulph Service, circa 1815-17

29 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£2,500 - £3,000

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A Swansea plate from the Biddulph Service, circa 1815-17

Painted in the London workshops of J Bradley and Co, possibly by Philip Ballard, with a view of 'Stanmer Park, Sussex. The Seat of the Earl of Chichester', the classical house set in wooded parkland within the South Downs, gilded formal borders around the cavetto and rim, 20.9cm diam, title in red script typical of the Bradley workshop

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Provenance
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.

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