Adrian Alan Ceramics

A Worcester (Barr, Flight Barr) Porcelain Floral Painted and Gilt Vermicule Ground Part Dessert Service, Painted by William Billingsley. Impressed and printed marks. Comprising: Two tureens and covers, each decorated on both sides. Two oval dishes, 28 cm. wide. Twenty-four plates each finely painted with a different floral panel, 21 cm. diameter. Impressed and printed marks, England, Circa 1810. Provenance: J. Rochelle Thomas, London. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. Laurance S. Rockefeller. Alberto Pinto. Literature: Sandon John, Ewers-Tyne Collection of Worcester Porcelain at the Cheekwood Collection, Nashville, Tennessee, 2007, Item number 77 - a plate from this unique service identified as being the work of Billingsley. Only employed at Barr, Flight Barr for a short period, initially as a painter and subsequently perfecting their porcelain bodies, Billingsley left in 1813 to set up the Nantgarw China...

A fine pair of Vienna Style Porcelain tureens and covers. Each cover with finely painted figural mythological scenes of Venus, Cupid and nymphs in the style of Angelica Kaufmann...

A Sèvres style blue ground gilt metal mounted circular box and cover. A Sèvres style blue ground gilt metal mounted circular box and cover, painted with a quarter-length portrait ...