Lot 183 , A rare Rockingham porcelain ornithological cup, cover and stand, c.1826-30, H. 14cm, faults

A rare Rockingham porcelain ornithological cup, cover and stand, c.1826-30, applied with entwined twig shaped handles, painted with a Nile goose titled 'Chenalopex aegytiaca' and butterflies, red griffin mark, H. 14cm, faults
Estimate £150-250

Cf. D G Rice, Rockingham Ornamental Porcelain, colour plate 15 and A & A Cox, Rockingham 1745-1842, colour plate 95 for a plate painted with similar birds and insects, which is inscribed 'Insects of Surinam by Merian'. The authors speculate that the artists may well have copied the designs from rare books or prints at 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.

There is fine crazing to the glaze and some black speckling to the unglazed inner rim and feet on all of the pieces. The cup has a feint hairline crack to the left of the goose in the sky. The cover has a splinter chip to the rim messily restored with some discoloured restoration and gilt overpainting around the area. The stand has areas of staining to the glaze, some wear to the gilding and two stained cracks to the broad rim.


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Sold for £240