A rare Swansea muffin dish c.1817-20

A rare Swansea muffin dish c.1817-20, simply decorated with sprigs of pink rose and blue convolvulus, rare red Bevington mark, and a pair of Stevenson and Hancock Derby circular plaques painted with pink roses in the Billingsley manner, 22.3cm max. (3)

Provenance: the Raymond Dennis Collection, nos. 97 and 94.

The Swansea chinaworks was leased to brothers John and Timothy Bevington in the summer of 1817. Pieces made under their ownership more frequently bear an impressed mark, and it is possible that the few pieces with an overglaze mark were made during the Dillwyn period and decorated later.