Fergus Gambon
Director
Lot 254
A fine Nantgarw plate of Mackintosh type, circa 1818-20
5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,932.50 inc. premium
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Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
A fine Nantgarw plate of Mackintosh type, circa 1818-20
The shell-moulded rim with twelve equal lobes, painted in London, probably by Thomas Martin Randall, with a brightly coloured bird perched on a woody branch, the border with four full floral sprays reserved on a richly gilded ground of shells, scrolls, leaves and flowers, 13.2cm diam, impressed NANT-GARW CW
Footnotes
A plate with related decoration from the Rowland Williams Collection was sold by Bonhams, 2 November 2015, lot 227. The Mackintosh Service was originally in the possession of the Priest Richards family of 'Plâs Newydd', near Cowbridge. In 1880, it was given to Ella Priest Richards on the occasion of her marriage to the Mackintosh of Mackintosh. By the turn of the century, it had been dispersed. A number of pieces were bought back by the Mackintosh of Mackintosh from Frederick Litchfield of the Sinclair Galleries in Shaftsbury Avenue in 1901. It appears that a number of services were decorated in similar style and three are discussed by W D John, Nantgarw Porcelain (1948), Supplement Number Two. Further variants of the pattern have been subsequently recorded. The establishment of Robbins and Randall of Barnsbury Street, Islington is thought to be responsible for the decoration.
