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Swansea Plate - Burdett-Coutts Service c.1816 (1 of 4)
Penrose Antiques Ltd
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Established in 2010, we are dealers in good quality antique furniture, silver, metalware, fine porcelain, artwork and glassware ranging from the 18th century to the early 20th century. We have a particular interest in the Arts and Crafts movement, and much of our stock dates to this era. We’ve published several books on antiques, which are available via Amazon. We have a large dealers unit at Carlton Fine Arts and Antiques Centre in Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, and we stand at fine arts and antiques fairs in Yorkshire and Lancashire.
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Swansea Plate - Burdett-Coutts Service c.1816

REF: HE057 / LA80330
£1,250
€1,460
$1,572
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Description
We have for sale a very rare Swansea plate that was part of a service ordered in 1816 by the banker Thomas Coutts on his marriage to the actress Harriet Mellon. It seems that the dinner service was sold by the Coutts family in 1922 at Christies. The plate has a typical Swansea duck egg porcelain body and was decorated at the London atelier of John Sims by James Turner with a scene in polychrome and gilt of a large central basket of flowers surrounded by a gilded rococo band and 3 butterflies. The plate is 9 inches (22.8cm) in diameter and is in a fair to good condition with some staining and wear to the gilt. This Swansea plate is illustrated in "A journey with William Billingsley" 2016, ISBN: 9783741809903 and also illustrated in "Swansea Porcelain. The Duck-Egg Translucent Vision of Lewis Dillwyn" by Howell G M Edwards, edited by Morgan Denyer, page 51, 2017, ISBN: 9780244325787
measurements
Diameter:
22.8 cm
declaration
Penrose Antiques Ltd has clarified that the Swansea Plate - Burdett-Coutts Service c.1816 (LA80330) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1816
condition
The plate is in a fair condition with some staining and wear to the gilt.
location
This Swansea Plate - Burdett-Coutts Service c.1816 is located in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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