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The cwpwrdd deuddarn at Moorabool Antiques
Today, we have a fine group of Oak furniture, including the sensational Welsh ‘cwpwrdd deuddarn’ dated 1692, another dated 1655, an oak bureau, and several other Georgian oak pieces.
16th Century Nuremberg Alms Dish
There’s an early ‘Alms’ dish, made in Nuremberg in the 16th century.
Dated pieces are always of particular interest, as they give us a reference point for dating other similar pieces. There’s another dated piece released today, an English Oak cupboard dated 1655. They are rare, and to have these significant pieces in stock is a great pleasure.
We have a fine selection of very pretty 18th century porcelain, including Meissen and Royal Copenhagen tablewares, and a fine selection of figures – keep an eye on these ‘Fresh Stock’ posts, or join our email list to be notified when it is online.
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Welcome to our ‘Fresh Stock’ update – these items are fresh to our stock , and fresh to this website.
French ‘Sphinx’ deskset, circa 1880
Christmas is upon us! With December clicking over on the calendar, it’s time to get serious about those presents…. Moorabool is here to help, feel free to send a ‘request’, outline the sort of thing you’re after and the price – range, and we can come up with some possibilities to consider. While there’s a lot on our website, there’s just as much again not yet catalogued for us to look through for you.
Highlights posted today include a Dutch small hanging cupboard, a delightful watercolour by Bertha Rhodes titled ‘Haymaking’, a music stool & stunning beaded footstool, and an absolutely splendid Egyptian Revival desk set featuring a sphinx.
Bertha Rhodes ‘Haymaking’ , dated 1908
There’s a scattering of Antiquities, small Jewellery pieces, nice Victorian ceramics, all very good Christmas presents.
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Copley Fielding’s ‘View of Delphi’ at Moorabool Antiques, Australia
Today it’s a varied group – from small jewellery pieces to a pair of large Cantonese vases, alongside a Mason’s Ironstone large & bizarre ‘Chinese’ vase & cover. You’ll also find a little gem of a water colour by the highly respected Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, a rare subject matter with a blog post to elaborate on it here >>
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Welcome to our ‘Fresh Stock’ update – these items are fresh to our stock , and fresh to this website.
Today it’s a fantastic group of Old Sheffield Plate, more Ancient objects, some Chinese pieces, and other ‘curios’. You’ll find some terrific inexpensive Christmas Gift ideas.
In other news… tomorrow’s the ‘Black Friday’ tradition, and we have a surprise for you…. this weekend only, check your email tomorrow!
Bendigo Talk
‘Go Figure!’
We’re heading off to Bendigo this Saturday, for an interesting event – Paul is giving a talk as part of Valentine Antique’s ‘Lecture Series’, in the beautiful gallery complex just down from the Bendigo Art Gallery.
There are still tickets available if you’re able to make it, a small fee which includes refreshments and an hour looking at figures with Paul Rosenberg.
Date: 27th November Time: 11am Place: 16-22 View Street, Bendigo (just down from the Art Gallery) Price: $20 per person Bookings are essential, contact Valentines, Bendigo, on 5443 7279 to secure your place.
Please note: our Geelong premises is closed this Saturday, 27th November.
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Today it’s some early Japanese Imari porcelain, a very usable pair of silver plate candlesticks, and a giant Murano glass ‘Lily’ bowl. Talk about variety!
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Today it’s a great selection of Rosewood items from the 19th century – featured in their own blog page here>> – plus some other interesting pieces including a variety of pottery & porcelain, from ancient times to more recent – and all very tempting price-wise for Christmas…. just a few weeks away!
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Today it’s a great selection of Boxes, and some lovely ceramics with flower decoration…… perfect for Christmas Presents!
Note: our website is about to be completely refreshed, but is working as usual for the meantime.
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Welcome to our ‘Fresh Stock’ update – these items are fresh to our stock , and fresh to this website.
Today it’s a scattering of interesting Asian items, some smart cups & saucers, and a selection of Ancient Artifacts. All perfect Christmas Presents!
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Lavish is the word that best describes this Flight Worcester plate. It’s from the ‘Hope’ service, ordered in 1789 by William Henry, the Duke of Clarence, who was the third son of King George III and eventual inheritor of the British throne at the age of 64 after both brothers died without heirs.
William IV
The subject was chosen by him, and reflects his military career. Each piece has a different rendition of ‘Hope’ with her anchor, with a ship in the background. He had joined the Royal Navy in his youth, serving in North America and the Caribbean under Nelson. Nicknamed the ‘Sailor King’ when he came to the throne, it is little wonder he chose this nautical theme for his service.
The Hope Service, Flight Worcester, 1790
Securing the service commission was a major event for the ailing Worcester factory, which had been purchased by John Flight in 1783. It was William’s second commission from the factory, the first being the ‘St Andrew’ service, celebrating his achievement of the Order of St Andrew, earlier in 1789.
John Flight recorded in his diary in January 1790:
‘We used our two best painters last week to make some very fine designs for the Duke of Clarence, we have already completed 3 plates and I have sent them to London. One is a gold arabesque design, another the figure of Hope, the other of Patience.’
A few days later on 24th January John Flight added:
‘Apart from the two plates mentioned… we have made two others with figures, Peace and Plenty. H.R.H. Duke of Clarence has decided on the Hope design with the decoration that we put on the Peace plate, he has ordered a table service that will amount to more than £700 sterling. He has given us a year in which to complete it…’
A plate from ‘The Hope Service’, Flight Worcester 1790, made for the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV.
It is interesting to track down some original tabloid gossip from the period:
‘Hope Service’ described in a 1791 Clarendon Post
This news article intended to impress, inflating the price and the number of pieces. The comment about it being ‘particularly appropriate to the nautical profession of the royal proprietor …’ is interesting, as William was indeed a Navy officer. His father George III had determined he should join the Royal Navy, and so he entered the navy at 13 as a midshipman. He saw active service in the War of American Independence (targeted in a kidnap plot by an agent of George Washington in New York, 1782!), and became a friend of Nelson. He was placed on the Warwick under Captain George Keith Elphinstone, and spent time in the Caribbean. In 1789 he returned to England, where his father the King’s health was failing, but although he received promotions to rear-admiral, vice-admiral, and in 1799 admiral, the navy refused his pleas for a return to active service. When he gained the throne in 1830, he was affectionately known as ‘The Sailor King’.
‘Hope Service’ described in the Derby Mercury, 1791
Another news article, in the ‘Derby Mercury’ in 1791, quotes the same inflated price – 800 Guineas (more than the £700 Flight recorded in his journal) – but gets the number of pieces right at 296. The story related of his ‘Blue-blooded Britishness’ is fantastic – if it happened. He was offered a set of ‘Avignon China’ (French porcelain of some type) he refused, saying while OTHERS may be happy with foreign products, he wouldn’t even accept a piece of furniture that wasn’t British!
The back of this plate has a large pasted label, which declares the following:
Hope Service Label
Specimen of the Celebrated Service of Old Worcester
Porcelain, made and presented to Lord Nelson by the
Nation, bequeathed by him to King William the Fourth
who gave it to his son Lord Frederick Fitzclarence
and in whose Will the full particulars are given –
It passed by marriage to the Earl of Erol and was
his up to May 1893 when it was dispersed at Christies
and realised nearly the sum of £2000.
This is of course different to what has been described at the top of this page, and is a fascinating example of mis-information. This old label provides us with the source of this mis-information, the Christies auction which dispersed the service in 1893. They of course got their information from the Earl of Erol, who had inherited it from his father, the illegitimate son of William IV, Fitzclarence. It was in this will that ‘the particulars’ were given, and so the confusion appears to have arisen right back then, just the next generation from when it was a wonderful new service that impressed the nation.
The Royal French porcelain manufactory at Sèvres was well patronized by the French court, and the pieces they created were meant to be the most flamboyant and impressive luxuries imaginable. This pink ground cup & saucer certainly qualifies.
Sevres socketed cup & saucer with birds by Chappuis, 1765
Sevres socketed cup & saucer with birds by Chappuis, 1765
Important Sèvres cup and saucer, goblet et soucoup enfoncé, premiere grandeur , superbly painted by Antoine-Joseph Chappuis (aîné), with four panels of birds in landscapes, framed within rich tooled gold borders against a ground of blue and gold oeil-de-perdrix on a pink ground.
Crossed ‘L’s’ mark,
also date letter ‘M’ for 1765,
‘cp’ for artist Antoine-Joseph Chappuis (aîné),
incised cup repairer’s mark ‘00’ & ‘ae’
Madame de Pompadour was probably responsible for the inception of this unusual form of saucer, with its deep well ensuring the cup cannot be easily upset. The form appears in 1753, and as she was failing in health with tuberculosis, a socketed saucer negated the risk of spilling her drink due to a shaking hand or coughing fit. Factory records show that all examples of this type made were purchased by her until her death in 1764. The next recorded sale was in October 1765 to Princess Louise-Marie of France, youngest daughter of Louis XV. Its present whereabouts are unrecorded, and this example has a high possibility of being the goblet et soucoup enfoncé, premiere grandeur in question.
Sevres socketed cup & saucer with birds by Chappuis, 1765
They were one-off products, and examples vary wildly in decoration. An example in the Getty Museum is thought to have belonged to Madame de Pompadour. It has a saucer with an unknown repairer’s mark (00), the same as on this cup. The gilding appears on numerous examples from this period, often with small inconsistencies such as can be seen in the above detail, where the gold doesn’t quite cover the ground.
The artist Chappuis ‘l’aîne’ was a long-term employee at Sèvres, being apprenticed as a répareur (maker) in 1756, became a painter in 1761, became the deputy ‘head of kilns’ in 1782 , andin charge of the kilns for the final year of his life in 1787.
His wonderfully vivid birds are distinct amongst the Sèvres artists repertoire, and a piece such as this importantgoblet et soucoup enfoncé, premiere grandeur show Sèvres at its best.
Provenance: The Antique Porcelain Company, NY
References:
Similar gilding canseen on a can & saucer in the British Museum, #110 in Dawson’s book ‘French Porcelain in the British Museum’, also #112.
An écoulle, cover & stand with the same decoration was sold as part of the Giuseppe Rossi collection, Sothebys London 1999 lot 518
A cup & saucer with the same ground, very similar birds by another artist, Aloncle, 1765, at Christies London 2015.
A wonderful teapot with the same unknown repairer’s mark (00), also painted by the same artist, Antoine-Joseph Chappuis (l’âiné), 1765, sold by Bonhams London in 2014.
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