AN ENGLISH (BRITANNICUS DRESDEN CHINA) IRONSTONE PART SERVICE
CIRCA 1820, BLUE PRINTED MARKS
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AN ENGLISH (BRITANNICUS DRESDEN CHINA) IRONSTONE PART SERVICE Circa 1820, blue printed marks
Each serving piece with fruit finial and ram's mask handles, printed in blue and enriched in brightly coloured enamels and gilt with flowering plants in the Chinese taste, comprising: a soup tureen, cover and stand, two vegetable dishes and covers, two sauce-tureens, covers and stands, a shaped-square bowl and four graduated platter
15in. (38cm.) wide, the tureen (13)
Lot Essay
Geoffrey A. Godden, Mason's Patent Ironstone China, London, 1971, p. 102 notes that this maker is yet to be identified, but is known for 'quality Ironstone type ware of the 1820 period'.
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