The Sir Bruno Welby Collection of Porcelain - 6th February 2025
Lot 1808
A New Hall trio painted by Fidelle Duvivier, c.1784-90, comprising a coffee cup, teabowl and saucer,
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £3780
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Description
A New Hall trio painted by Fidelle Duvivier, c.1784-90, comprising a coffee cup, teabowl and saucer, painted in sepia monochrome with figures in rural settings before distant buildings, one showing a smoking pottery kiln, with a similar coffee cup painted by Duvivier in puce monochrome with figures before a church, 12.8cm. (4)
Provenance: the trio formerly in the collection of Geoffrey Godden.
Cf. Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, Vol. 20, Pt. 1, p.139 onwards for similar pieces illustrated and discussed by Jonathan Turner.