A Pinxton yellow-ground bough pot and cover circa 1799-1802

probably decorated in Mansfield, painted in the center with a view of a deer park flanked by green-ground oval panels of butterflies above a pink and gilt fluted border.

There is some very minor and occasional wear to the gilding along the edges. The cover: There is restoration to all three bulb openings and an approximate 4-inch area at the rim edge, possibly covering a break. The pot: There is an approximate 2-inch restored area at the base, possibly covering a shallow chip. Otherwise in good condition.
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After his partnership with John Coke at Pinxton ended, William Billingsley opened his own decorating shop in Mansfield in 1799. Only a few marked pieces painted by him are known to exist. An unmarked yellow-ground bough pot and cover of the same form, described as Mansfield-decorated, is illustrated in Ian Deverill and C. Barry Sheppard, Billingsley Mansfield, An Exhibition to Celebrate the Millennium and the Bicentenary of William Billingsley's Mansfield Porcelain-Decorating Establishment, 1799-1802, p. 48, fig. 86. A yellow-ground bough pot of the same form, also described as decorated in Mansfield, is illustrated in C. Barry Sheppard, Pinxton Porcelain, 1795-1813, p. 220, fig. 229.