THREE BRITISH PEARLWARE PLATES
Lot 43 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF RICHARD T. KANTER

THREE BRITISH PEARLWARE PLATES

CIRCA 1822

Closed21 January 2011

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USD 625

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THREE BRITISH PEARLWARE PLATES
CIRCA 1822
One almost certainly Scottish, molded and enriched in colors with a portrait of King George XIV within a basketweave border reserved three times with a trophy combining a rose, crown and thistle; two dodecagonal and likely Staffordshire, variantly painted with a stylized tulip within an identical molded flowerhead border enriched in the same palette
8 5/8 in. (21.7 cm.), the portrait plate; 7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) wide, the faceted plates (3)

Specialist note

For a similar portrait plate, made to commemorate the 1822 visit of George IV to Edinburgh and in the collection of Huntly House Museum, there attributed to the Prestonpans factory of George Gordon, see John and Griselda Lewis, Pratt Ware, 1780-1840, p. 112, lower left corner.