A WORCESTER (FLIGHT, BARR & BARR) PLATE FROM THE SERVICE MADE FOR THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY, CIRCA 1816
Lot Closed
August 12, 03:44 PM GMT
Estimate
700 - 1,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A WORCESTER (FLIGHT, BARR & BARR) PLATE FROM THE SERVICE MADE FOR THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY, CIRCA 1816
the gilt and enameled company's arms centered above a ribbon inscribed with the company's motto AUSPICIO/ REGIS ET/ SENATUS ANGLIN, flanked by three sprays of pink roses, within a pale-pink gilt-scroll-edged border, printed mark referring to Coventry Street, London address
diameter 9 in.
23 cm
A Flight, Barr and Barr campana vase from the Herbert Allen Collection, and a footed lozenge-shaped dish, both probably associated to the present plate, are in the in Victoria and Albert Museum, London, mus. nos. C.469-1935 and IM.335-1920. The former is illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Herbert Allen Collection of English Porcelain, London, 1917, pl. 62, no. 307. A flower vase from the service was sold at Sotheby's London, November 18, 1958, lot 163, and a pair of campana-shaped urns, perhaps ice-pails, and six plates, were sold, Property of Lt. Colonel P. F. G. Allardyce, R.A, Sotheby's London, February 4, 1969, lots 183-186.
A selection of pieces from this service comprising two shaped circular dishes, one shell-shaped dish, eighteen dinner-plates and six dessert-plates recently sold at Christie's London, Wilton Crescent, A Robert Kime Interior, July 23, 2020, lot 100.