Sugar bowl
Crown Derby
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1805 - circa 1810
Materials
Bone china painted in orange and gold
Measurements
88 x 105 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1270554.2.3
Summary
An open, oval boat-shaped sugar bowl of compressed globular form, part of a partial 61-piece Derby oval shape tea and coffee set in the neo-classical taste, bone china, the border painted with a pattern of six-pointed stars in reserve against an orange ground with smaller stars in gold and gold line bands, with the factory mark of a crown over crossed batons and 'D' and pattern number 628 in iron-red enamel, Duesbury and Kean period, circa 1805-10.
Provenance
Believed to have originally been the property of Bishop Adelbert Anson (1840 – 1909).
Marks and inscriptions
Base of sugar bowl: Derby China Works factory mark of a crown over crossed battons and a 'D' Base of sugar bowl: Pattern number of tea and coffee set (628) Base of sugar bowl: Historic NT Inventory Number: Shug/C/61, y Base of sugar bowl: Silver and black historic NT Asset Number label Base of sugar bowl: Typed on round white label: 'T.G. and Co. London Ltd.' Base rim of sugar bowl: Painted in blue enamel the number '9'.
Makers and roles
Crown Derby, maker