REF NO : B76770

Barr, Flight & Barr

A Worcester Porcelain Floral Painted and Gilt Vermicule Ground Part Dessert Service

England, Circa 1810

£38,000

A Worcester (Barr, Flight & Barr) Porcelain Floral Painted and Gilt Vermicule Ground Part Dessert Service, The Painted Decoration Attributed to William...

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REF NO : B76770

Description

A Worcester (Barr, Flight & Barr) Porcelain Floral Painted and Gilt Vermicule Ground Part Dessert Service, The Painted Decoration Attributed to William Billingsley.

Impressed and printed marks.

Comprising:
Two tureens and covers, each decorated on both sides.
Two oval dishes, 28 cm. wide.
Twenty-four plates each finely painted with a different floral panel, 21 cm. diameter.

Impressed and printed marks, England, Circa 1810.

Date

Circa 1810

Origin

England

Medium

Porcelain

Signature

Impressed and printed marks.

Provenance

J. Rochelle Thomas, London.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.
Laurance S. Rockefeller.
Alberto Pinto.

Literature

See John Sandon, Ewers-Tyne Collection of Worcester Porcelain at the Cheekwood Collection, Nashville, Tennessee, 2007, Item number 77 – for a plate from this service identified as likely being the work of Billingsley. Only employed at Barr, Flight & Barr for a short period, initially as a painter and subsequently perfecting their porcelain bodies, Billingsley left in 1813 to set up the Nantgarw China Works.

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