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A WORCESTER (BARR, FLIGHT & BARR) CRESTED PART-DESSERT SERVICE, CIRCA 1804-20

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August 12, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A WORCESTER (BARR, FLIGHT & BARR) CRESTED PART-DESSERT SERVICE, CIRCA 1804-20


painted in the 'Japan' pattern, with elaborate panels of a fenced garden, pierced rockwork and flowering branches separated by blue diaper bands, centering a crest of a gilt rampant lion, within a belt inscribed SINCERE, comprising: 

8 dessert plates, 8 1/8 in., 20.7 cm diam.;

and a pair of oval dishes with shaped rims, 11 1/8 in., 28.3 cm wide;

together with two biscuit plates, 9 1/4 in., 23.5 cm diam.

and six coffee cans, six teacups and six saucers,

incised B mark, one piece with impressed crowned BFB mark, most pieces printed mark referring to Coventry Street, London address, the trios with crowned FBB marks. 30 pieces

The combination of this crest and motto is not recorded in James Fairbairn's Book of Crests, and therefore may be seen as a personal adoption.


The pattern was used for a service provided for Colonel Pauling Carruthers of Painswick, Gloucestershire. Ninety pieces from this service were sold, Sotheby's New York, April 11, 1997, lot 317, formerly sold, Sotheby's London, July 4, 1964, lot 146 (96 pieces). A variation of the pattern, bearing the crest and feathers of the Prince of Wales, made circa 1807, is illustrated in Henry Sandon, Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840, 1978, p. 19. The Prince of Wales, later George IV, visited both Flight's and Chamberlain's porcelain works at Worcester in September 1807 and gave both his Royal Warrant.


A square-shaped dish from the present service was sold at Christie's London, September 2, 1981, lot 103.