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Click here to subscribeJOHN, W.D. Nantgarw Porcelain, Newport: R.H.Johns Ltd. 1948, 'with one hundred and eighty five illustrations of which forty two are in colour', original full maroon leather gilt, t.e. maroon remainder uncut, large 4to.; with IDEM. Supplement Number One, Newport: The Ceramic Book Company 1956, and two other documents all in rear pocket.FROM A PRIVATE SINGLE OWNER COLLECTION
ASSORTED ROYAL DOULTON & OTHER DECORATIVE CERAMICS including five Dickens jugs and six miniature character jugs, French majolica fish ewer, Nymphenburg tea cup and saucer, coffee pot marked 'Nantgarw', 'Oyster Day' fairing, Capodimonte figurine aof a Physician, and a Limoges part tea service (qty)Provenance: private collection BridgendComments: several Doulton jugs cracked, otherwise appear good, teaset missing two cups, cow damaged horn etc., inspection advised
A group of Regency porcelains, c.1805-20, including a Nantgarw oval dish, a cabinet cup with cover and stand decorated with silver lustre, possibly Spode, a Coalport armorial plate, a Barr, Flight and Barr saucer dish with the letter J within a bold Imari design, a gold-decorated Derby saucer, a New Hall milk jug with Classical figures, a similarly decorated teapot and cover, and a botanical teacup and saucer, some damages, 29.3cm max. (12)Provenance: Rod Jellicoe.
LARGE NANTGARW OVAL FAN HANDLED DISH circa 1817-1820, interior decorated with colourful flower sprays within a continuous blue border and gilt dentil rim, external body with matching floral decoration, handles with elaborate gilding, Harry Sherman label to base, impressed mark NANT GARW CW to base , 36cmsProvenance: private collection HerefordComments: wear / staining / chip to under foot
A Nantgarw Porcelain Oval Dish, circa 1818-20, painted in London with the "Tumbling Baskets" pattern and with flowersprays and scattered sprigs within gilt scrollwork, impressed mark30.5cm wideNo chips, cracks or repair. Slight wear to the gilding, mainly on the rim. Minimal surface scratches.
A Collection of 19th Century English Porcelain, including a garniture of three cache pots with lion mask handles and painted with landscape vignettes, a Victorian porcelain teaset painted with ornithological subjects, Davenport teacup and saucer, Caughley saucer and a Nantgarw coffee cup (one tray)Cache pots (collectors label for Herculaneum) - all missing stands, central pot with a small chip to the side of the base. Side pots one with heavy chipping around the drain hole, the other with a long crack, gilding very heavily worn on all. Davenport saucer - crazed, cracked and with staining.Victorian teaset - one cup badly cracked.All pieces with general wear.
19th century Nantgarw porcelain plate, of lobed form, decorated with rose repeating borders and central roses and foliage, with gilded highlights. Impressed marks to the reverse 'Nantgarw C W'. 24cm diameter approx. (B.P. 21% + VAT) some wear to the gilding on the rims, minor wear overall, no obvious chips, cracks or restoration.
1975 The Nantgarw Porcelain Album by W. D. John with G. J. Coombes and Katherine Coombes. Publ. The Ceramic Book Company. In white leatherette boards, presented in red cloth slipcase. Richly illustrated with full colour depictions of examples of Nantgarw throughout. A smart example of an important catalogue & reference work on ceramics produced at the Nantgarw China Works.
An early 19th century porcelain plate, likely Nantgarw, floral decoration similar to the Farnley Hall service, 22cm diameter; together with an early 19th century Davenport plate, hand painted with a central floral wreath, heightened in gilt, 24cm diameter (2)Provenance: From the Michael V. Bailey collection
A Swansea cabinet cup and stand, c.1818, raised on a circular foot with a curved handle, a pounce pot, a small inkwell, a small tazza or pin tray applied with flowers to the rim, a Nantgarw-style cup and saucer, and a cover for an incense burner, all painted with European flowers, 14.7cm max. (8)
SWANSEA CAMBRIAN PEARLWARE CASSOLETTE circa 1806, elevated by three tall tapering square legs with moulded lions masks, over concave triangular base, undecorated frieze, reserved on blue ground, reversible cover, 29cms (h)Provenance: deceased estate Newport.Auctioneer's Notes: Cf. Jonathan Gray, The Cambrian Company, p. 151, pl. 6.16., and E. Morton Nance, The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw, (XVII).Comments: small chips to foot, nibbles to floral knop, candle nozzle deficient.
THE CAMBRIAN VISITOR WITH ENTRY BY WILLIAM WESTON YOUNG being 'A Monthly Miscellany for The Principality of Wales and the Adjoining Counties', January to August 1813, bound with its continuation 'The Cambrian Magazine', published Swansea, engraved frontispiece Swansea Castle, bookplate for Arthur Owen Evans Archdeacon of Bangor 1921, quarter calf, gilt titled spine, 8voProvenance: private collection CardiffAuctioneer's Note: William Weston Young (1776–1847), the Quaker entrepreneur of Bristol and Glamorganshire, artist, botanist, wreck-raiser, surveyor, potter, and inventor of the firebrick and the major investor in the Nantgarw porcelain enterpriseComments: corners bumped, boards worn, foxing to print
NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE circa 1818-1820, having a centred full flower spray including open pink rose, the border typically moulded with c-scrolls, forget-me-knots and tied ribbons which is unusually picked out in gold, six small rose sprigs to border, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 22cms diamProvenance: private collection SurreyComments: excellent, gilding and decoration is fresh
RARE SWANSEA CAMBRIAN PEARLWARE CASSOLETTE circa 1806, elevated by three tall tapering square legs with moulded lion's masks, over concave triangular base, finely painted below the rim with a band of polychrome acanthus, anthemion and seaweed ornament, reserved on blue ground, reversible candle holder/cover, 28.8-31.5cms (h)Provenance: deceased estate Newport.Auctioneer's Notes: Cf. Jonathan Gray, The Cambrian Company, p. 151, pl. 6.16. and p. 128 pl. 5.26, and E. Morton Nance, The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw, (XVII), and Sothebys 14-16.5.92, Sir Leslie Joseph Collection, lot 782 where the decoration is attributed to Thomas Pardoe.Comments: small chips to foot, nibbles to floral knop, crack to candle nozzle.
NANTGARW PORCELAIN SQUARE DESSERT DISH circa 1817-1820, moulded c-scroll borders, painted by Thomas Pardoe with floral sprays including thorny rose, forget-me-not and chrysanthemum, a smaller spray to one side and floral sprigs in the border, within a chocolate rim, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 24cms wideAuctioneer's Note: chocolate brown is usually associated with more naive local decoration rather than the sophisticated floral decoration as shown on this dish. Also note that the finely detailed petals in the orange chrysanthemum are the result of Pardoe wiping away the enamel - a technique which is more widely associated with the decoration of William BillingsleyProvenance: private collection SurreyComments: rare dish in fresh condition, no structural issues, v. minor losses to rim decoration
NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE BRACE SERVICE circa 1818-1820, having C-scroll moulded border, painted in London, probably in the Bradley workshop, with a centred flower spray including open roses, the border with six panels painted with three flower sprigs, two colourful birds on twigs and a single panel of fruit including pear, gilt dentil rim, impressed NANT-GARW CW to base, 21.5cms diamProvenance: private collection SurreyAuctioneer's Note: 'The Brace Service', after a square dish with the same decorative scheme presented to the Rt. Hon. William Brace, P.C. illustrated by W D John 'Album..' (1948)Comments: v. good, without damage or restoration, sl. wear to gilding as expected, one of a pair in this auction (see next lot)
NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE circa 1817-1820. non-moulded border, interior decorated with large full floral spray and two insects, segmented blue line to the cavetto, the border with five sprays and one insect within a gilt dentil rim, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 23cms diamProvenance: private collection SurreyComments: superb example with stunning enamels, to match two further plates (see previous / next lots)
PAIR OF NANTGARW PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES circa 1813-1820, each painted with full blown roses and wild summer flowers, C-scroll moulded border and gilt band rim, impressed marks, 21.7cms (diam) (2)Provenance: private collection BristolComments: gilt partially rubbed, one with small rim chip, other with ground foot-ring and chip to foot-ring, worn glaze underneath.
NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE circa 1817-1820. non-moulded border, decorated with large full floral spray and two insects, segmented blue line to the cavetto, the border with five sprays within a gilt dentil rim, two insects to underside, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 23cms diamProvenance: private collection SurreyComments: superb example with stunning enamels, sl. wear to petals of one, to match two further plates (see next lots)
NANTGARW PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATE circa 1813-1820, painted by Moses Webster, with full blown summer flowers on a dentil moulded marble plinth, C-scroll moulded rim and gilt band, impressed mark, 21.6cms (diam)Provenance: private collection BristolAuctioneers Notes: Cf. E. Morton Nance, The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw, pl. CLXXII fig F for a similar Webster-painted plate featuring flowers on a plinth.Comments: very good
PAIR OF NANTGARW PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES circa 1815-1821, moulded c-scroll borders, three sprays of flowers to each amongst scattered sprigs, both with three hovering insects, within gilt dentil rims, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 22cms diamProvenance: private collection SurreyComments: wear to areas of enamelling
NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE BRACE SERVICE circa 1818-1820, having C-scroll moulded border, painted in London, probably in the Bradley workshop, with a centred flower spray including open rose, the border with six panels painted with three flower sprigs, two colourful birds on twigs and a single panel of fruit including peach and strawberries, gilt dentil rim, impressed NANT-GARW CW to base, 21.5cms diamProvenance: private collection SurreyAuctioneer's Note: 'The Brace Service', after a square dish with the same decorative scheme presented to the Rt. Hon. William Brace, P.C. illustrated by W D John 'Album..' (1948)Comments: v. good, without damage or restoration, sl. wear to gilding as expected, one of a pair in this auction (see previous lot)
PAIR OF MATCHING NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATES circa 1817-1820, with large central floral spray to the interior and highly gilded borders around four further sprigs, gilt dentil rims, impressed marks NANT GARW CW to bases, 21.5cms diamProvenance: private collection SurreyComments: minor gilding loss only
NANTGARW PORCELAIN PLATE circa 1817-1820. non-moulded border, interior decorated with large full floral spray and four insects, segmented blue line to the cavetto, the border with five sprays within a gilt dentil rim, two insects to underside, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, 23cms diamProvenance: private collection SurreyComments: superb example with stunning enamels, to match two further plates (see previous lots)
PAIR OF NANTGARW PORCELAIN FAN-HANDLED DESSERT DISHES circa 1813-1820, centres painted with sprays of three roses, within three flowers sprigs in the cavetto, gilt dentil border, gilt acanthus and fan handles, impressed mark, 21.7cms (w) (2)Provenance: private collection BristolComments: gilding rubbed
WELSH CERAMIC REFERENCE BOOKS INCLUDING UNIQUE SCRAP BOOK BY W J GRANT DAVIDSON comprising 'The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw' by E Morton Nance, 'Nantgarw Porcelain' and 'The Nantgarw Porcelain Album' by W. D. John, the W. J. Grant-Davidson British ceramic Library Reference Works, a Nantgarw Porcelain catalogue by Rowland Williams and a Sir Leslie Joseph Exhibition catalogue of Swansea Porcelain at the Vivian Gallery, Swansea (6)Provenance: private collection Powys, Wallace James Grant-Davidson, FSA, FRSA, was a noted Swansea personality who had gained an international reputation as an expert in ceramics. He was the author of The Pottery of South Wales|: An Illustrated Guide Comments: all in used condition, please examine
FOUR NANTGARW PLATES circa 1815-1820, comprising 'Tumbling Baskets' dessert plate, 21.4cms (diam), Brace Service type plate with moulded C-scroll border and gilt dentil rim, 25cms (diam.), plate painted with six sprays of summer wildflowers, 23.5cms (diam), and dessert plate with four sprays of summer flowers, gilt dentil rim, 21.1cms (diam.) (4)Provnance: deceased estate Newport.Comments: gilding rubbed on all plates, 'baskets' plate badly cracked (NB. handle with care), 'Brace' plate enamels worn, flower spray plate crazed and stained, inspection advised.
Three Nantgarw porcelain plates, circa 1820, painted with small flying insects, two ladybirds and scattered flower sprigs within moulded and feathered blue and solid gilt border, comprising two of lobed oval form, impressed NANT GARW CW to base, one inscribed ‘B’, 30cm diameter; and one of shaped lobed form, impressed NANT GARW CW G to base, 23cm diameter (3)
A pair of Nantgarw porcelain plates, hand painted with birds and flowers, 22cm in diameter Each plate with a long crack, professionally concealed; both with flakes to the enamels, particularly the plate with three birds; considerable surface wear and wear to the gilded rims. No factory marks.
Collection of assorted items to include: Art pottery Welsh red dragons; one marked Nantgarw chinaworks 2014 and both with inscribed initials JH, Royal Doulton shoe shaped ceramic pin cushion, a Steuben glass geometric shaped paperweight with covering bag and a brass bell with carved wooden handle. (B.P. 21% + VAT) Height of Dragons: 22.5 and 19cm high approx. No obvious damage.
A Nantgarw Porcelain Teacup and Saucer, circa 1818-20, painted with buildings in landscape on a claret ground within gilt bordersA Teacup and Saucer, painted with flowersprays in panels on a blue ground gilt with foliage (4)Claret - saucer with a large section broken into three and restuck to the border, both wornBlue - cup with a crack to the handle, slight wear and pitting
Attributed to Nantgarw: a set of four circular porcelain plates, each painted with a basket of flowers, within decorative gilt borders and dentil rim, no marks, 23cm diameter, one plate with hairline crack, gilt decoration rubbed on all plates (4) Note: one plate bears a label on the reverse inscribed in ink “Nantgarw (early Swansea) 1817-1819 London Decoration. Sold at Sotheby’s for £27 per plate from Baroness Burdett Coutts Collection in 1920 (Given to Hilma by Auntie Rara)".
A Derby Porcelain Plate, circa 1790, writhen moulded, with foliate gilt border and painted to the centre with fruit, painted puce mark22cm wideA Similar Pair of Plates, circa 1780, painted with central bouquets, uncommon puce mark (usually associated with Chinese-type patterns)24cm wideTwo Spode Oval Serving Dishes, decorated in the Japanese stylelargest 31cm wideA Nantgarw Plate, moulded and painted with flowers25.5cm wideA Small Spode Tureen Stand 18cm diameterA Similar Felspar Soup Plate24cm wideTwo Further Hard Paste Porcelain Examples, painted and moulded with flowerslargest 29cm wideA Mug, with moulded horse hoof handle, painted with a landscape panel of a river landscape with a building and water wheel, monogramed AJS7cm highThree Various Coffee CansTwo Teacups and Two Saucers(18)A Derby Porcelain Plate - gaze and decoration wear, some scratches, no chips or cracksA Similar Pair of Plates - one cracked, one with a firing crack to the foot. Heavy decoration wearTwo Spode Oval Serving Dishes - largest badly cracked and stained, both heavily pitted and with wear to the decorationA Nantgarw Plate - short firing crack, crazed and stained A Small Spode Tureen Stand - no damage or repairA Similar Felspar Soup Plate - some slight wear to the gildingTwo Further Hard Paste Porcelain Examples - plate with a long cvrack in the well, dish with a V-shaped section re stuck and associated crack, both heavily wornA Mug - crazed, stained and with some gilt wearThree Various Coffee Cans - faceted example good, Imari with a crack in the base, third example with a series of cracks and a large chip to the footTwo Teacups and Two Saucers - honeycomb examples in good order, odd pair both with heavy wear, the saucer cracked
Two Nantgarw Porcelain Coffee Cups and One Saucer, circa 1818-20, painted in London, probably in the Sims Workshop, painted with bands of pink roses on gilt dotted and leaf panelsThis style of decoration is often attributed to the former Derby painter James Turner whilst at the Sims decorating studioSome typical wear to gilding. No chips, cracks or repair.
TURNER, William, The Ceramics of Swansea and Nantgarw, a History of the Factories, well illustrated, 33 plates including colour, 4to, original cloth, Bemrose & Sons, 1897; with Spellman WWR, Lowestoft China, 97 plates, 4to, original cloth, with Binns B R W, Worcester China - a Record of the Work of Forty-Five Years 1852-1897, illustrated, full vellum in slipcase, 8vo, 1897, with Bow, Chelsea and Derby Porcelain, 20 plates, original cloth, 4to, Bemrose 1898. (4)
A rare Nantgarw porcelain cabinet plate decorated by Thomas Pardoe, the porcelain c.1818-22, the decoration c.1821-23, painted with a landscape vignette of two exotic birds perched on tree branches to the centre, contained within a six lobed cartouche of gilt bands with iron red stylised flower surmounting each lobe and trios of gilt-highlighted leaves to the creases, on a turquoise and duck-egg blue caillouté ground with six ornamental reserves bordered in blue and gilt and containing further painted exotic birds in landscapes, the gilded rim with six large and six small lobes, old collector's label to underside, 21cm diameter The present lot is being offered on behalf of a charity. Footnotes: Note: Thomas Pardoe (1770-1823) was one of the most versatile painters of pottery and porcelain in the late 18th and early 19th century in England and Wales. Born in the parish of St. Alkmund in Derby, Pardoe was apprenticed to the Derby porcelain works at the age of 15, and by age 20 had moved to Swansea as a skilled artisan by request of George Haynes, owner of Cambrian Pottery. Between 1802 and 1804 Pardoe was acting manager and chief painter. Around 1809 Pardoe moved to Bristol, where he is recorded as having a decorating business. While in Bristol, Pardoe acted as go-between in the development of a new venture of porcelain manufacture at Nantgarw, aiming to manufacture the finest porcelain available for the English market. In 1821 Pardoe was invited by William Weston Young to work with him and decorate the large stock of porcelain that remained. Pardoe’s Nantgarw painting was based on his standard repertoire, including Japanese-influenced ‘Imari’ styles, Chinese-influenced ‘famille rose’ styles, botanical decoration, naturalistic flower groups, and caillouté or ‘pebbled’ gilding. Pardoe’s painting at Nantgarw was among his very finest, a reflection of his great admiration for the factory and the culmination of some thirty years of painting experience. The present lot is most likely a single-item commission rather than from a named service or registered pattern, and therefore bears a possibly unique decorative scheme in Pardoe's oeuvre. It bears no impressed mark, but this is not universal for Nantgarw porcelain, see below in the related literature for other examples. The turquoise caillouté ground is strongly reminiscent of Sèvres porcelain and illustrates the prevailing taste and demand for Sèvres porcelain among wealthy families and connoisseurs in London in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Related Literature: Andrew Renton et. al., Thomas Pardoe 1770-1823, Nantgarw, 2023: Nantgarw China Works. Cf. N18 for a plate decorated by Thomas Pardoe in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, item number NMW A 31449, and N20 for a plate decorated by Thomas Pardoe in the Andrews Collection, Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw. The examples mentioned above share the six lobed cartouche with iron red stylised flowers, ornamental reserves painted with exotic birds, and caillouté ground found on the present lot. These unusually elaborate plates showcase the range of Pardoe's skills from figurative and landscape painting to East Asian motifs. The NMW example equally bears no impressed mark and yet is undoubtedly from Nantgarw and decorated by Thomas Pardoe. W. D. John, Nantgarw Porcelain, Newport, 1948: R. H. Johns Ltd. Cf. 53 D. for a small plate decorated in the Kildare S. Meager Collection decorated with similar ornamental reserves to the present lot, albeit containing single pink roses. See also 54. A for a small plate in the E. M. Bythway Collection with a similar treatment of a distant background of conventional mountains in pale bluish-grey colouring to the centre of the plate. We are grateful to Andrew Renton of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales for confirming the attribution of the present lot based on inspection of photographs.Condition Report: Overall in good decorative order. Some light scratches to the porcelain visible on the centre, some pitting present to the centre and border, some bubbling and tarnishing to the gilt lobed cartouche on the right side, some loss of gilding to the rim, some areas of surface dirt. UV examination reveals a now-defunct postcode inscribed in UV-susceptible ink to the underside.
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