Barr Flight and Bar Armorial Plate, Worcester, England, ca. 1807–1813

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• Lot Description
  Worcester, England, c. 1807–1813. A finely enameled and gilt porcelain armorial plate, the center decorated with the arms of Warren impaling Mangles, surmounted by a crest of a cockatrice. The arms are set against a ground painted in simulated grey veined marble, encircled by a gilt foliate scroll border. The reverse with impressed crowned “BFB” mark for Barr, Flight & Barr, Worcester, and printed retailer’s mark for Barr, Flight & Barr, Royal Porcelain Works, London House, Coventry Street. With old paper label noting a similar plate preserved in the Herald’s Office, Dublin, and that the color of the grey “clouds” was reputed to alter with the weather. Retains provenance sticker for Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, New York, a distinguished dealer in British ceramics and armorial porcelain.

  Condition

  Well preserved. Consistent with age.