Lot 112 , A rare Rockingham botanical specimen part breakfast service, griffin statant mark, c.1826, with some matching pieces, c.1830-5

A rare Rockingham botanical specimen part breakfast service, griffin statant mark, c.1826, with some matching pieces, c.1830-5, each piece painted with titled botanical specimens, with gilded chain-link borders, each base inscribed in iron red with the specimens title some pieces with pattern number 580, the majority of saucers and plates with iron red griffin statant Rockingham mark indicating most of the service was supplied in late 1826. Together with a different pattern Rockingham pink rose and insect painted soup dish with standard iron red mark and a botanical specimen jug with puce mark. See Gorringes online condition report for a full listing of the service.

cf. Alwyn and Angela Cox, Rockingham 1745–1842, colour plate 47 for a variation on this pattern. This service is similar to the Royal botanical plants and flies service delivered to Wentworth house in 1829 but with the absence of insects on the plants. According to Castle Howard records a breakfast service of pattern 580 was delivered to the Earl of Carlisle in November 1829, from the Bramelds’ York shop and is described as Royal Breakfasts.
£400-600

Condition:
The botanical breakfast service in pattern 580 all with some fine crazing to the glaze, comprising - three oblong serving dishes with puce marks, two cracked across the middle one of those with some flaking to the enamels and the third heavily stained. A 17.5cm slops bowl, badly cracked. A milk jug and cover with a crack to the upper border by the spout and the bayonet fitting cover stuck fast. twelve extra large 12cm diameter breakfast cups, four ring well, but eight with some staining and occasional minor cracks. There are eleven 18cm diameter matching saucers, eight ring well, three cracked. All with iron red Rockingham marks. Ten 24cm diameter plates each with a Rockingham griffin statant iron red mark, three badly cracked, the rest ring true with occasional scratching to the glaze. Two additional 23.5cm plates with Rockingham puce marks in good condition. A pair of muffin dishes and covers, the dish base is with Rockingham griffin statant iron red marks, good condition. Five coffee cups, two ring through three with cracks and staining. Eleven matching 15cm diameter saucers, nine ring true, two cracked all with Rockingham iron read Griffin statant mark. The additional jug in a different pattern has some staining and crazing to the glaze a large chip to the edge by the handle and there’s a Rockingham puce mark. The rose and butterfly painted soup bowl has a large discoloured area of restoration to one side and there is a standard Rockingham iron red mark

Sold for £950