Plate
Nantgarw Porcelain Works
Category
Ceramics
Date
1812
Materials
China
Measurements
240 mm (Dia); 20 mm (H)
Place of origin
Nantgarw
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Hatchlands Park, Surrey
NT 1166409
Summary
A dessert plate, porcelain, one of four, Nantgarw China Works in the manner of William Billingsley, 1813-14 or 1817-20. A central floral spray with a blue rim and small sprays, 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 spray of flowers on this plate. The body of the plate has a fine translucency, the rim decorated with blue ground dotted with a darker blue, smaller sprays also in the derby manner on the rim.
Credit line
Given by Miss Clarke
Marks and inscriptions
On base of plate, impressed underneath in the centre : 'NANTGARW C W'
Makers and roles
Nantgarw Porcelain Works, organisation by or after William Billingsley (Derby 1758 - Coalport 1828), artist