A Coalport partial botanical dessert service
circa 1840-45
finely painted by Stephen Lawrence with central specimens, within apple green and lemon borders reserving three printed and over-painted floral cartouches, comprising three dessert plates, 24cm diameter; an low oval twin-handled comport, 33.5cm wide and a tall tazza with reticulated stem, 18cm high, unmarked
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Provenance: The Malcolm Sargeant Collection.

Examples from a similar service in held in the Shrewsbury Museum are illustrated in Michael Messenger, 'Coalport 1795-1826' (Woodbridge 1995), plts 220-222.

Condition Report
Low oval comport- small chip to underside of one handle has been professionally restored.

Tall comport- some staining and crazing to underside and the base in general. Dish later secured to base with a bolt.

One plate with some rubbing to the gilded border around the main flower and to one half of the border. A couple of light scratches commensurate with general age but the painted flowers remain generally good.

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