Lot 150
PEARLWARE PART DINNER SERVICE IN 'THE APOTHECARY' PATTERN
CIRCA 1820
Auction: Five Centuries Day One | Wed 11th November | Lots 1 to 322
Description
with printed and polychrome enamel clobbered decoration depicting a central chinoiserie scene showing figures seated at a table, with a man holding a parasol standing alongside, also featuring a fence, pagodas and trees; surrounded with shaped c-scroll cartouches enclosing flowers and exotic birds, on an ochre ground with flowerhead motifs; with blue line borders; comprising: twelve dinner plates, 23.6cm diam; four soup bowls, 24.2cm diam; three smaller bowls, 21cm diam; seven ashets, the largest 49cm long, the smallest 33cm long; two pierced drainers, 37cm and 33cm long; two oblong serving dishes, 31.5cm long, 26.5cm long; a small tureen on stand, tureen 19cm wide, stand 17.2cm wide; a large twin handled soup tureen and domed cover, 37cm wide; and a very large tureen and cover 47.5cm wide; mostly unmarked, dinner plates with impressed wheel mark (qty)
Dimensions
largest 49cm long
Footnote
The ‘Apothecary’ pattern is also known as ‘Parasol’ or ‘The Physician’s Visit'. The maker is not known. A service in this pattern was sold at Bonhams Edinburgh, lot 452, 6th December 2013.