Worcester Porcelain Barr, Flight & Barr Shell Dessert Dish By William Billingsley – c1810

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Heading : Worcester Porcelain Barr. Flight & Barr Shell Dish – William Billingsley
Date : 1808 – 1813
Period : George III
Marks : impressed BFB and crown mark; stamped with crown. Prince of Wales feathers and text: BARR FLIGHT & BARR – Royal Porcelain Works – WORCESTER — London-House – No1 Coventry Street —
Origin : Worcester. England
Colour : Polychrome and gilt
Pattern : Gilt finish to edge of lip and rim with intricate swags and hatching to ‘handle’; central flower composition to base of well. surrounded by eight small sprigs; likely to have been executed by William Billingsley

Features : Lobed rim with moulded ribs running over a circumferential ogee curve around the lip; small. moulded. solid. handle extending from the rim for 25% of its extent
Condition : excellent; very little gilt wear; enamels are bright and clear with very few scratches; one or two minimal underglaze inclusions to the bowl; some very fine kiln-spit to the underside along with an area of very tiny burst glaze bubbles
Restoration : none
Dimensions : 4.7 cm high – 18.5 cm in diameter
Weight : 307 grams

References: Flight & Barr Worcester Porcelain (Henry Sandon 1978) – page 110 for a slightly later iteration of the same form

 

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Weight500 g

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