Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 24 Feb 2015
Two Paris porcelain plates decorated after Swansea and Nantgarw porcelain c.1820
Two Paris porcelain plates decorated after Swansea and Nantgarw porcelain c.1820, one attributed to James Plant at the Sims workshop and painted in sepia with cattle and sheep at a watering hole, the other attributed to Thomas Martin Randall and decorated with a couple walking beside a river, within a wide geometric gilt border, 24cm max. (2)
Cf. A similar scene to the second plate is found on a Derby plate bearing the monogram TMR and illustrated in Billingsley, Randall and Rose, Welsh Ceramics in Context, Part I, fig 11.11, p 201.