ARMORIAL CERAMICS IN 18TH CENTURY BRITAIN

ECC 2008 EXHIBITION

  Held June 21st – July 3rd 2008

At the Brian Haughton Gallery, Duke St., St James's,

The English Ceramic Circle's 2008 exhibition incorporated some fascinating and important pieces of ceramic history featuring armorial decoration on earthenwares, stonewares, Chinese and English porcelain, with further examples in enamel, silver, and pewter.  The exhibition included some examples from the 17th, 18th, and early 19th century

 A selection of the wares on show is shown below.

Plate with the associated unidentified arms with the crests and motto of Gale Braddyll, bone china, impressed FBB, Flight, Barr & Barr; painted at Chamberlain’s, Worcester , c. 1840.

 The crests and motto of Gale Braddyll of Conishead Priory, Lancaster, but with unrelated arms, was illustrated in J. and J.B Burke, Heraldic Illustrations, London , 1844, possibly as a sample

Jug with the arms of Pierrepont, Duke of Kingston , creamware, bat-printed in black, Yorkshire or Staffordshire, c. 1770.

 Made shortly after the marriage in 1769 of Evelyn Pierrepont (1711-1773), 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, and the bigamist Elizabeth Chudleigh (1720-88). At the time Chudleigh was still married to Augustus Hervey (1724-79), later 3^rd Earl of Bristol. Her inheritance was given on the condition she never re-marry.

Dessert dish with the arms of Gresley of Drakelow quartering Wastney of Hedon with Bowyer of Knippersley, Staffordshire, in pretence, soft-paste porcelain, Bloor Derby, ca 1821.  

Oblong serving dish with the arms of Boume, soft paste porcelain, Worcester , c. 1775.

Coffee can with the royal ducal crest within the badge of the Order of the Garter, soft-paste porcelain, Chamberlain’s, Worcester , c. 1802-6.  Made for Ernest Augustus (1771-1851), fifth son of George III, created duke of Cumberland and and later king of Hanover (r.1837-51).

Breakfast cup with the arms of the House of Hanover following the Act of Union (1801), crown and cypher ‘GR’ for George III, soft-paste porcelain, Barr, Flight & Barr, Worcester , c. 1805.

Jug with the arms of Cropley, soft-paste porcelain, Worcester , c. 1758-60.  

Ordered by the Rev. William Cropley (d.1804), of Acton, Middlesex, having obtained his B.A. at Clare Hall, Cambridge , (see his facsimile bookplate, c. 1754-58 from the Franks Collection, British Museum ). He became a deacon in 1758, and in 1760 married Sarah Byrne of Stoke Newington in 1760.

Plate with the arms of Hay, soft-paste porcelain, Chamberlains, Worcester, c.1798-1805.

Probably ordered for George Hay, 16^th Earl of Erroll (1767-1798), who married Elizabeth Jemima Blake in 1790. The Earl took his own life, after inadvertently disclosing a secret entrusted to him by Pitt the Younger. Alternatively it may have been ordered by his brother William Hay, 17^th Earl of Erroll (1772-1819), after 1798.

Ex Lord Lytton Collection