Plate
Miles Mason (1752-1822)
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1806 - circa 1813
Materials
Bone china decorated with enamels
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1270513
Summary
A set of five Mason’s plates, bone china, ensuite with a Chinese ‘famille-verte’ table service (NT Inventory Number 1270511) with gadrooned rims, painted in ‘famille-verte’ style enamels with two women in court dress in a garden tending a table filled with ornamental pot plants, and one holding a branch possibly a scented osmanthus or cassia flower, within a seeded Europeanized foliate scroll band on a seeded ground, with panels filled with antique and Buddhist symbols, the reverse with four groups of flowering branches in green and red enamel, impressed ‘M. Mason’ for Miles Mason (1752-1822), of Lane Delph, Staffordshire, circa 1806-13.
Full description
A set of five Mason’s plates, bone china, ensuite with a Chinese ‘famille-verte’ table service (NT Inventory Number 1270511) with gadrooned rims, painted in ‘famille-verte’ style enamels with two women in court dress in a garden tending a table filled with ornamental pot plants, and one holding a branch possibly a scented osmanthus or cassia flower, within a seeded Europeanized foliate scroll band on a seeded ground, with panels filled with antique and Buddhist symbols, the reverse with four groups of flowering branches in green and red enamel, impressed ‘M. Mason’ for Miles Mason (1752-1822), of Lane Delph, Staffordshire, circa 1806-13. Mason had begun his career as an Oriental china retailer in London and his advertisement dated 1804, ‘proposed to renew or match the impaired or broken services of the nobility and gentry’. The Mason's plates, together with an assembled 25-piece Chinese export service, have been at Shugborough since at least the early 19th century. (Information supplied by Patricia Ferguson - March 2013).
Provenance
Possibly ordered at the time Thomas Anson II was created Viscount Anson in 1806 or for the proposed visit of the Prince Regent.
Makers and roles
Miles Mason (1752-1822), maker