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An important Nantgarw ice pail, cover and liner by Thomas Pardoe Circa 1818-20.
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Find your local specialistAn important Nantgarw ice pail, cover and liner by Thomas Pardoe
Of cylindrical form supported by three bun feet, the twin angular handles with shell-shaped terminals picked out in gold, the cover with a finely turned rim and a heart-shaped finial, painted by Thomas Pardoe with sprays and smaller scattered sprigs of garden flowers, a small moth in flight to one side, within brown line borders and gilded rims, 23cm high (some slight staining to base of liner, a few minute patches of wear to gilding on the rim of the cover and liner) (3)
Footnotes
Provenance: Ann and June Kieft Collection. Illustrated by W D John, Nantgarw Album, Illustration 90 and by E Morton Nance, The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw, pl CLXXIXC. Nance states at p 419 that the handle on the cover of this lot corresponds with one excavated at the Nantgarw site. Only a very small number of Nantgarw ice pails are recorded, this lot being particularly important in view of fine condition and the high quality local decoration by Thomas Pardoe. Two London decorated examples of the same form are illustrated by Roland Williams, Nantgarw Porcelain 1813-1822, figs 73 and 74, p 30. A slightly squatter variant with a more rounded base is shown at fig 72.