THREE BLUE AND WHITE TRANSFER PRINTED MEAT PLATES
19TH CENTURY
Estimate: £150 - £250
Auction: Session One - Wednesday 19th February at 10am
Description
comprising a Riley plate printed with ‘Eastern Street Scene’, unmarked; an oval dish by Turner printed with the ‘Elephant’ pattern, impressed TURNER O under prince of Wales feathers; a Herculaneum tree and well meat plate printed with ‘New Baths Georges Parade Liverpool’, printed title to reverse; and a meat plate, probably Bovey Tracey, Devon, printed with ‘Spotted Deer’ pattern, unmarked; together with a dated jug, also probably Bovey Tracey, printed with ‘Spotted Deer’ pattern and inscribed to the front ‘William Mugford Born April 15th 1803’, unmarked (5)
Dimensions
oval dish 52cm wide, jug 14.5cm high
Provenance
The Maisels Collection of British Ceramics
Footnote
For a reference relating to the Bovey Tracey pieces see Adams & Thomas, ‘A Potwork in Devonshire’, p 84-85 and Adams & Mumford, Friends of Blue, 80: p10-11
The view of the New Baths shown on the Herculaneum tree and well plate is taken from a print entitled ‘New Baths, George's Parade’, drawn by Messrs Pynes and engraved by Robert Wallis, published in London by Fisher, Son & Co, 1829