Dessert service
Nantgarw
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1818 - circa 1820
Materials
Soft paste porcelain
Place of origin
Nantgarw
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1296740
Summary
A dessert service comprising twenty-four plates, soft-paste porcelain, French moulded foliate border, painted in enamels with large bouquet in the centre surrounded by birds fruit and flowers on the rim, gold dentil border, possibly painted by Thomas Pardoe (1770-1823), impressed ‘Nant-garw/C.W’, Nantgarw, Wales, c. 1818-20
Provenance
Egerton collection devised to the National Trust by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874-1958); 1920 Inventory of Tatton in Still Room Passage China Closet.
Makers and roles
Nantgarw, manufacturer possibly Thomas Pardoe (1770-1823), painter