Fine Pottery & Porcelain - 21 Feb 2024
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A Flight Barr and Barr Worcester armorial oval dish from the Stowe Service, c.1814, finely painted
A Flight Barr and Barr Worcester armorial oval dish from the Stowe Service, c.1814, finely painted to the well with the arms of the second Marquess of Buckingham and his wife Lady Anne Brydges, flanked by a lion and a white horse with black Prussian eagles, above the motto 'Templa Quam Dilecta', reserved on a salmon ground with gilded neoclassical motifs, impressed crown and BFB mark, restored, 30.8cm.
Provenance: the Charles Dawson Collection.
Cf. Charles Dawson, Worcester Flight & Barr Porcelain, p.180. The Stowe service was made for Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, second Marquis of Buckingham and originally comprised 186 pieces. He became 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos in 1822, but by 1848 his extravagant lifestyle had brought the family to ruin and the contents of Stowe House were put up for auction that summer. The service was listed in the catalogue of 23rd August 1848 as lot 956. It was bought by T Delarue Esq for £29 18s. The third Duke of Buckingham and Chandos bought 82 pieces of the service back, but these were sold again in 1921.
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