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Lot 331

A fine Nantgarw cabinet cup and stand, circa 1818-20

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,437.50 inc. premium

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A fine Nantgarw cabinet cup and stand, circa 1818-20

The cup of U-shape, the twin griffin handles resting on the everted rim picked out in dark green and black enamel, locally painted by Thomas Pardoe with pairs of garden birds perched on wispy branches, a single insect in flight just inside the rim of the stand, a gilded formal border inside the rim of the cup, stand 11.2cm diam (2)

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Provenance
Lord St Davids Collection, Bonhams sale, 8 April 2009, lot 253
Sir David John KCMG

Pardoe's bird painting on this miniature scale is extremely unusual, but a single-handled cabinet cup of the same form with very similar painting is illustrated by W D John, Nantgarw Porcelain (1948), Illustration 56B.

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