Plate
Nantgarw
Category
Ceramics
Date
1813 - 1820
Materials
China
Measurements
240 mm (Dia); 25 mm (H)
Place of origin
Nantgarw
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Hatchlands Park, Surrey
NT 1166406
Summary
A dessert plate, porcelain, one of four, Nantgarw China Works in the manner of William Billingsley, 1813-14 or 1817-20. A green ground with four floral panels, fluted edge. Base bears the impressed mark 'Nantgarw C(hina) W(orks)'.
Full description
One of a set of four plates, all bearing the impression of Nantgarw C (hina) W(orks). Located in South Glamorgan, Wales, the works had two phases of production between 1813 to 1814 and 1817 to 1820. The works were founded by William Billingsley (1758-1828), who trained at Derby China Works as a painter but latterly turned to the production of porcelain. He set up at Nantgarw with son-in-law Samuel Walker. Billingsley is most noted for his "derby style", tight bunches of flowers that show the flowers from different angles. A manner employed in the central and three border panels on this plate. The surface of the plate is lightly pitted, the green ground enhanced with partridge eye pattern formed by discs of gilding surround by dots on the white ground.
Credit line
Gift of Miss Clarke
Marks and inscriptions
'NANTGARW C W' impressed underneath in the centre
Makers and roles
Nantgarw, organisation by or after William Billingsley (Derby 1758 - Coalport 1828), painter