S019
Service Horace Walpole
- Service
- Horace Walpole
- Description
- A fine fluted Bristol service made for Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole and builder of Strawberry Hill, painted in enamels with green floral garlands suspended from gilt loops hanging from a heavy gilt dentil rim.
- Notes
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- Service ID
- S019
Historic illustrations, exhibitions and provenance
H0206 · 1912
Horace Walpole
Source: Owen's Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol bound with 185 extra illustrations
H0207 · 1912
Walpole cup and saucer (alongside Capenters Company service)
Source: Owen's Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol bound with 185 extra illustrations
H0022 · 1915
Horace Walpole cup and saucer from Priscilla Fry's Illustrations of Ceramic Art
Constituents
Group · g1452
A Bristol cup and saucer from the Horace Walpole service.
Teapot · 1201
A fine Bristol fluted barrel-shaped teapot and cover from the Horace Walpole service, with finely modelled flower knop and harebell-moulded and gilt painted handle, painted in monochrome green with garlands of leaves and flowers suspended from gilt loops, gilt dentil borders, blue X and 1 marks.
Saucer · 1407
A fluted Bristol porcelain saucer, the wavy rim which is richly gilded. The decoration is in green and black. It comprises a single central flower surrounded by a continuous garland suspended from the rim at five equidistant points by gilded hoops. Mark: blue X 1.
Cup · 1452
Afluted Bristol cup, painted with green and black monochrome garlands suspended from gilt loops hanging from a gilt dentil rim. Mark: blue X1.
Saucer · 1452.1
A fluted Bristol porcelain saucer, the wavy rim which is richly gilded. The decoration is in green and black. It comprises a single central flower surrounded by a continuous garland suspended from the rim at five equidistant points by gilded hoops. Mark: blue X1.
