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Lot 244

A Barr, Flight and Barr Worcester armorial plate, circa 1807

27 November 2024, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Barr, Flight and Barr Worcester armorial plate, circa 1807

The centre painted by Samuel Smith with a fisherman standing on a riverbank, three figures in a small boat, a house nestled at the foot of distant hills, a handsome salmon-ground border with neoclassical gilding reserving an oval panel with two coronets, one for a Marquess, the other a Baron, 22.5cm diam, incised B mark and printed oval BFB mark with Royal patronage including the Prince of Wales feathers

Footnotes

The combination of the Marquess's and Baron's coronets gives a clue as to the possible owner of this plate. In 1807 there were only sixteen Marquesses. That year, George Townshend (1755-1811), inherited the marquessate of Townshend from his father. He was already styled Baron Ferrers of Chartley, having previously inherited this ancient barony from his mother. Worcester's marks on the plate place production very close to 1807, when the Prince of Wales announced his patronage of the factory, but incised B marks were still evidently being used from the recent Flight and Barr partnership. No other example of this service is known. Perhaps this was a specimen plate, and the cost of such large landscape panels and detailed gilt borders proved prohibitively expensive to put a full service into production.

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