Description
Heading : An armorial Worcester porcelain plate from the Calmady Service
Date : 1765-1770
Period : George III
Marks : None
Origin : England
Colour : Gilt pears and chevrons on a dry blue field
Pattern : Calmady service
Size : 8 7/8 inches diameter
Condition : Minor mossing in the glaze
Restoration : None
Weight : 280 grams
Additional Information :Ex-Hanscombe collection. ECC armorials exhibition 2008. Ex-Mercury Antiques
References: James Giles China and Glass Painter- Stephen Hanscombe item 81
ECC Transactions Volume 20 part 1. p131 item 27
Examples are also held by the Ashmolean Museum and The Museum of Worcester Porcelain
The ribbon at the base of the armorial is inscribed WC. This is for Captain Warwick Calmady (1711-88) or his son of the same name. W Calmady junior pre-deceased his father at the age of twenty seven in 1780. The service then descended through his widows family until it was sold at Bearne’s in 1985 on behalf of this lineage. This indicates that the service was most probably manufactured for the wedding of Warwick Junior to one Miss Pollexfen and thus the monogram is for Warwick junior not his father.
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