Lot 308
Barr Worcester Japan Pattern Service, c.1800-05
Lot 308 Details
Barr Worcester Japan Pattern Service, c.1800-05
painted in colours and gilt with panels of stylized flowering shrubs in garden settings, the centres with monograms MJ in gilt, comprising eighty-two pieces: teapot with stand, cream jug, two-handled sugar basin, waste bowl, 10 breakfast cups, 12 tea cups, 9 coffee cans, 4 chocolate cups, 22 saucers, 12 dessert plates, 4 larger plates, 2 saucer dishes, 2 covered muffin dishes
incised and impressed marks
Estimate $2,000-$3,000
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Provenance:
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Macdonald Collection, Edmonton
Literature:
Henry Sandon illustrates a plate decorated with a variant pattern, from a service made for The Prince of Wales in 1807, in Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain, 1783-1840, p.19
CONDITION DETAILS
A number of pieces, at least half of the service, do not bear the MJ monogram; very minor chip at rim of one muffin dish (re-gilt) and another under one handle of the the teapot stand; very minor chips to the foot rims of three cups and a dinner plate; crack to handle of one cup; some minor wear to gilding; otherwise in substantially good condition