Lot 763
Royal Apricot and Gold Porcelain Tea Service Bowl. Flight & Barr, London. Georgian England, c. 1795. The rather deep bowl on short ring foot. The apricot borders overlaid with gilded floral vines and arabesques, which center on one side a hexagonal cartouche with English cottage view, in sepia grisaille. Painted on the bottom, a crown, beneath which: "Barr, Flight & Barr, Worcester / Flight & Barr, Coventry, London / Manufacturer to their Majesties & Royal Family." Bowl excellent, with only light wear just beginning to show at the rim gilding. Height: 3-1/4"; Diameter: 6". Comes with the 1945 Park-Bernet catalog. Elegant!
Estimated Value $750 - 950.
From the estate of the famous magician, Blackstone. Ex Park-Bernet, 12-7-45, lot 341, sale of the Ocean Front property of Marion Davies (companion of William Randolph Hearst), this bowl illustrated.
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