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Lot 251

A fine London-decorated Nantgarw plate, circa 1818-20

5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£2,500 - £3,000

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A fine London-decorated Nantgarw plate, circa 1818-20

The cavetto painted with a garland of tightly packed garden flowers including daffodil, passion flower, chrysanthemum and variegated tulip, the pale blue border reserving six panels painted with roses and forget-me-nots within raised and finely tooled gilded borders, a gilded band of oeil de perdrix just below, 23.3cm diam, impressed NANT-GARW CW

Footnotes

Provenance
Sir Leslie Joseph Collection

The quality of the floral painting and of the gilding on this plate is exceptional. The London workshop responsible is not known.

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