Coalport Botanical Porcelain Dessert Tureen, Cover and Stand 1805-10

Description

Heading :  A Coalport Botanical Porcelain Dessert Tureen. Cover and Stand
Date : 1805-1810
Period : George III
Marks : None
Origin : Coalport. Shropshire
Colour : Polychrome and gilt
Pattern : Botanical specimens and elaborate gilt borders.
Features : Puce painted in script to tureen ‘Potentilla grandiflora’ and ‘Lathyrus tinqitanus’ and the stand ‘Glycine Coccinea’
Condition : Good
Restoration : None
Dimensions : Stand 21.4 x 16.4cm. Tureen and cover height 14cm.
Weight : 776 grams

Eric Knowles Comments: A dessert service of this same form and decoration with a yellow. rather than elaborate gilt. border is in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen. See: Coalport and Coalbrookdale Porcelains. Godden G A plate 26.