Date: Circa 1815
Period: Regency
Maker: Coalport Porcelain Works (John Rose & Co.)
Coalport called the elegant shape of these cups ‘Empire’ as they are influenced by French fashion during the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. French taste prevailed in Britain from 1810 to 1815, even as war raged with France.
This pattern dates from around 1815, the year of Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo. Its main elements are elaborate foliate gilding and enamelled red flowers, all executed by hand. We think the flowers are poppies. Dark blue borders around the wells of the plate and saucer, and on the outside of the cups below the rims, are gilded with oat heads.
The trio is unmarked, but the serving plate has the impressed mark found on many Coalport plates and dishes of the 1815-25 period, a distinctively shaped numeral 2, and, in half-rubbed miniature script, the pattern number 689.
Condition Pristine/excellent. Serving plate: Pristine, apart from couple of scratches Saucer: Excellent, tiny amount of gilt rubbing, only visible on close inspection Teacup: Pristine Coffee cup: Pristine, apart from small (narrow, 3mm long) section of gilt rubbing on top of handle.
Plate Width: 21.2 cm Saucer Diameter: 14.7 cm Teacup Height: 7 cm; Width, with handle: 11 cm Coffee cup Height: 9 cm; Width, with handle: 9.2 cm
Combined net weight = 858 g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
Origin: Coalport, Shropshire, England
For background on the factory, see Coalport Porcelain Works (John Rose & Co.) in Makers & Artists
