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A fine tea bowl and saucer from the William Cowles service.

Tea bowl · 1408

A rare Bristol tea bowl from the William Cowles Service, finely painted in coloured enamels with a bold spray of flowers and leaves, and scattered flowers, and with conjoined initials in gilt ‘WC’, within a laurel roundel, gilt dentil rims, circa 1774, no mark. From the service ordered by William Cowles of 33 Castle Green, Bristol, who was a Quaker and a friend of both Champion and Harford. The majority of this service is in the Lady Charlotte Schreiber Collection, in the Victoria and Albert Museum. See the Bristol Porcelain Bicentenary Exhibition, 1970, number 91c, for another tea bowl and saucer from this service.

Saucer · 1408.1

A rare Bristol tea saucer from the William Cowles Service, finely painted in coloured enamels with a bold spray of flowers and leaves, and scattered flowers, and with conjoined initials in gilt ‘WC’, within a laurel roundel, gilt dentil rims, circa 1774, no mark. From the service ordered by William Cowles of 33 Castle Green, Bristol, who was a Quaker and a friend of both Champion and Harford. The majority of this service is in the Lady Charlotte Schreiber Collection, in the Victoria and Albert Museum. See the Bristol Porcelain Bicentenary Exhibition, 1970, number 91c, for another tea bowl and saucer from this service.