THE `SHAKESPEARE HEROINES` SERVICE: A COALPORT PORCELAIN SERVICE FROM THE 1871 LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION WITH ITS ORIGINAL OAK CHEST

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$ 70 000
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27.01.2023 12:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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Lot 14 | THE 'SHAKESPEARE HEROINES' SERVICE: A COALPORT PORCELAIN SERVICE FROM THE 1871 LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION WITH ITS ORIGINAL OAK CHEST
THE 'SHAKESPEARE HEROINES' SERVICE: A COALPORT PORCELAIN SERVICE FROM THE 1871 LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION WITH ITS ORIGINAL OAK CHEST

DATED 1871, GILT DATED AMPERSAND AND MONOGRAM MARKS, RECORDED AS DESIGNED BY C.J. ROWE, PAINTED BY PALMERE AND RETAILED BY A.B. DANIELL, LONDON

Each of the pale-blue ground vases, plates and cups finely painted with a beauty or scene from one of William Shakespeare's plays, the underside of the plates and saucers with a quote relating to its respective vignette, its Scene and Act identified, all within floral festoons, comprising:

A pair of vase form coolers on stands

Twenty-four plates

Twelve coffee-cups and saucers

Twelve teacups and saucers

Three shallow saucer-form serving dishes with gilt ribbons



All in an oak chest, the front with a brass plate engraved Albert Brassey Esq. 1871 and a paper label to the upper edge inscribed DANIELL, China & Glass Manufacturer, 129 NEW BOND STRT LONDON

11 3/4 in. (29.8 cm.) high, the coolers on stands





Provenance

Colonel Albert Brassey Esq. of Charlton Park, Gloucestershire, Heythrop Hall, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, and at 29 Berkeley Square, London, 1871.

By descent to his oldest son, Captain Robert Bingham Brassey.



Exhibited

The International Exhibition, London, 1871.
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