FIVE VARIOUS BLUE AND WHITE TRANSFER PRINTED MEAT PLATES AND A STAND
19TH CENTURY
Estimate: £250 - £350
Auction: Session One - Wednesday 19th February at 10am
Description
one a tree and well example printed with the ‘Family and Mule’ pattern, marked in underglaze blue '2'; one by Rogers, printed with a pastoral scene of cattle in the water with two castles in the distance, impressed ROGERS 16; one by James Keeling, printed with ‘Lakeside Meeting’ pattern, marks in underglaze blue ‘1’, a Zacharia Boyle Antique Scenery plate printed with ‘A North East View of Lancaster’, with cartouche mark and title; and a Ridgway plate printed with a gothic mansion, a horses and a trap in the foreground, underglaze ‘12’ mark; the stand from the ‘Stafford Gallery’ series, printed with a landscape scene depicting architectural ruins in the foreground and a grand house in the distance, cartouche mark to the reverse with Stafford Gallery Opaque China (4)
Dimensions
largest 56cm wide, smallest 36cm wide
Provenance
The Maisels Collection of British Ceramics
Footnote
David Maisels noted in his personal catalogue that ‘Stafford Gallery’ is a series that may be after four volumes of engravings illustrating the Collection of Paintings of the Most Noble Marquis of Stafford.