Fergus Gambon
Director
Lot 332
A rare Swansea botanical dish, circa 1815-17
20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,147.50 inc. premium
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Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
A rare Swansea botanical dish, circa 1815-17
Of oval form and with crisp C-scroll moulded, painted in London, probably in the workshop of John Bradley in Pall Mall, with a specimen of 'Princes Feather' surrounded by floral and fruit sprigs, gilt dentil rim, 26.3cm wide, titled in red script
Footnotes
Provenance
Sir David John KCMG
The source print is plate 7(2) of Vol.1 of 'The New Flora Britannica' (also known as 'The New Botanic Garden'), published in 1812, the drawings by Sydenham Edwards. The sprigs painted in the border relate to those on pieces of Brace Service type, and similar red script is also found on services painted by Bradley with specimens taken from George Edward's Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Botanical painting by the Bradley workshop is only rarely found and it is likely that only one service of this type was decorated, characterised by the fine quality of the botanical painting. Another example was sold by Bonhams on 2 December 2009, lot 251.
