Live Auction 16719The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: English & European Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations, Part I
A SET OF EIGHT COALPORT PORCELAIN DINNER PLATES AND THREE SOUP PLATES
Lot 291

A SET OF EIGHT COALPORT PORCELAIN DINNER PLATES AND THREE SOUP PLATES

DATED 1808-09, SIGNED BY THOMAS BAXTER

Closed9 May 2018

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A SET OF EIGHT COALPORT PORCELAIN DINNER PLATES AND THREE SOUP PLATES
DATED 1808-09, SIGNED BY THOMAS BAXTER
Painted to the center with fruit and vegetable specimens including a cos lettuce, an orange, a lemon and gooseberries, within gilt scrolled acanthus borders
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) wide, the soup plates

Acquired from J. Rochelle Thomas, New York, December 1965.

Specialist note

For other plates with the same border, also painted by Baxter in 1808 and 1809, see M. Messenger, Coalport 1795-1926, Suffolk, 1995, p. 16., color pl. 5, and p. 134, pl. 83 and 84.