Lot 177 , A Rockingham porcelain Royal Botanical Plants & Flies milk jug and a hexagonal baluster vase and cover, c.1830, H. 10.7 and 12.3cm, fau

A Rockingham porcelain Royal Botanical Plants & Flies milk jug and a hexagonal baluster vase and cover, c.1830, the lobed milk jug painted with named botanical specimens 'Anemone' and 'Chelone Obliqua' and insects, gilt chain link border, pattern no. 695, red griffin mark, c.1826-30, the vase painted with a floral bouquet and other sprays, unmarked, H. 10.7 and 12.3cm, faults
Estimate £150-200

cf. Dennis G. Rice, Rockingham Ornamental Porcelain, plate 140 and The Illustrated Guide to Rockingham Pottery and Porcelain, plate 103 for the jug in this lot. See also A & A Cox, Rockingham 1745-1842, colour plate 47 for a covered sugar bowl matching this milk jug, also decorated with pattern 695 from a breakfast service supplied to the Earl Fitzwilliam for Wentworth House.

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.


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Sold for £220