Code: 11739
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A Very Unusual Set of Three 19th Century Porcelain Dessert Plates Hand-Painted With American Views after William Henry Bartlett and Nathaniel Parker Willis’ “American Scenery”
Duck egg blue borders with fine gilding
Each titled and marked beneath
Possibly Derby or Rockingham
England, Circa 1840
Measure:-
24 cm diameter (Each)
The hand-enamelled views depicted are:-
"New York Bay from the Telegraph Station, America"
"New York from Weehanken" &
"Mount Tom and the Connecticut River, America"
Each bearing their hand-painted title in brick red and with a scarlet decorator’s mark or pattern number “1/361”.
For a very similar set of nine plates, almost certainly by the same manufacturer, see The Yale University Art Gallery (Mabel Brady Garvan Collection) [Accession Nos: 1947.285a to 1947.285i ].
The Yale plates with minor differences to the decorative border and bearing the decorator’s mark or pattern number “1/401”
Very good condition. Currently fitted with mid-19th Century brass armatures allowing them to be hung as wall-plates or decorative plaques.


