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A COALPORT PORCELAIN SILHOUETTE-DECORATED APRICOT- GROUND DINNER-SERVICE

Lot 19
07.07.2022 17:00UTC +00:00
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£ 56 700
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 791839
Lot 19 | A COALPORT PORCELAIN SILHOUETTE-DECORATED APRICOT- GROUND DINNER-SERVICE
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 80 000
A COALPORT PORCELAIN SILHOUETTE-DECORATED APRICOT- GROUND DINNER-SERVICE

CIRCA 1808-10

The centre of each piece painted with a charming domestic scene in silhouette, the border with anthemion and pendant vine, comprising:

Two oval tureens, covers and stands

Four sauce-tureens, covers and three stands

Four square vegetable-dishes and three covers

Thirteen oval platters in sizes

A circular two-handled bowl

Twenty-four soup-plates

Forty-seven dinner-plates

20 in. (50.8 cm.) wide, the largest platters





Provenance

John Julius Angerstein (1735–1823), or his son John Angerstein MP (c. 1774 – 8 April 1858), circa 1808-10, thence by descent to C.C. Chisolm Esq.;

His sale; Sotheby’s, London, 12 October 1965, lot 91;     

Re-purchased by the Angerstein family (in the above sale), thence by descent.



Literature

E. Nevill Jackson, The History of Silhouettes, 1911, pl. XVII (one plate).

Ceramics, Official Journal of the British Pottery Managers' Association, volume. 16, 1965.

James Stewart, ‘Letter from London’, Antiques Magazine, January 1966, p. 128.

Geoffrey A. Godden, ‘The Angerstein Service and its Attribution’, Connoisseur, April 1966, pp. 236–8.

Arthur Mayne British Profile Miniaturists, London 1970, pp. 89-90, pl. 63-64.

Susanna Avrery-Quash, ‘The lover of the fine arts is well amused with the choice pictures that adorn the house’, Journal of the History of Collections, December 2017.

Sally Jenkinson, Woodlands and John Julius Angerstein, Greenwich Local History Library, London, 1986, p.16.



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Manufactur:Coalport Porcelain Factory
Applied technique:Pottery
Medium:Ceramic, Porcelain
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Category:Services
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