Lot 193 , A Rockingham porcelain miniature tea set, c.1830-42, teapot 9.5cm across, damage to teapot

A Rockingham porcelain miniature tea set, c.1830-42, each piece painted with flower sprays within gilt and blue borders, saucers with puce griffin mark, eleven pieces including covers, teapot 9.5cm across, damage to teapot
Estimate £200-300

Provenance:
The Dennis G. Rice collection of fine Rockingham porcelain

As well as being an avid collector of Rockingham ornamental porcelain and animal figures, Dr. Dennis G. Rice was an academic and wrote two key reference works on the subject – Rockingham Ornamental Porcelain (1965) and the Illustrated Guide to Rockingham Pottery & Porcelain (1971).
A number of the pieces illustrated in the books are offered below. The Rockingham animals figures in the collection are also published in Dennis G. Rice's companion books Dogs & Cats in English Porcelain and English Porcelain Animals of the 19th Century.

There is fine crazing to the glaze on all of the pieces. The teapot has chip losses to the spout, and the finial is missing from the cover. One of the cups has a stained crack to one side. One saucer has a brown accretion to the glaze on the underside by the edge. The sucrier has a firing crack to each side of the inner rim which is not visible when the cover is in position, otherwise in reasonable condition with no restoration detected.


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Sold for £400