Penrose Antiques

Description

We have the real pleasyre of being able to offer for sale an extremely rare Nantgarw dinner plate from the famed Duke of Cambridge dinner service c1818.

The Duke of Cambridge Dinner Service was commissioned by the Prince Regent (eventually George IV) as a wedding gift for his younger brother Adolphus & Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel on their marriage in 1818. The service is illustrated in illustrated in WD John “Nantgarw Porcelain Album”

This London decorated plate was painted at the atelier of Robins and Randall with a central bouqet of flowers surrounded by 8 vignettes, 2 of birds, 2 of flowers and 4 of landscapes. The Base of the plate carries the impressed Nantgarw C.W marks to base.

The plate is 9 and 1/2 inches (24cm) in diameter and is in a good condition other than staining to reverse and an overglazed firing crack across the foot rim. The firing fault does not extend to the decorated surface of the plate.

This nantgarw dinner plate is currently being exhibited as part of the selling exhibition of rare Derby, Pinxton, Nantgarw and Swansea porcelain "A journey with William Billingsley" 2016, ISBN: 9783741809903