Serving dish cover
Miles Mason (1752-1822)
Category
Ceramics
Date
1804 - 1813
Materials
Ironstone, underglaze blue, polychrome enamels, gilt
Measurements
100 x 230 x 190 mm
Place of origin
Fenton
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 771307.15
Summary
Entree dish and cover, ironstone, rectangular with pistol handle, cover with Child coat of arms, surrounded by four medallion with the Child family crest in reserve against a powdered blue ground, painted in polychrome enamels and gilt; ensuite with a Chinese armorial service, 771307 and 771442.
Full description
This part armorial service supplemented the Child family's 18th-century Chinese armorial service, and was made of a form of white stoneware known as ironstone. It was probably ordered by Sarah Sophia Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey (1785–1867), from the Staffordshire factory of Miles Mason (1752–1822). A former Oriental china retailer, Mason announced in 1804 that he ‘proposed to renew or match the impaired or broken services of the nobility and gentry'.
Marks and inscriptions
Painted on the obverse with the Child heraldic device
Makers and roles
Miles Mason (1752-1822), manufacturer after Jingdezhen , ceramic manufacturer