£100 - £200
Portmeirion Botanic Garden pattern part dinner service and other wares, composite printed marks, including large number of dinner and luncheon plates, two storage jars and covers in sizes, an enamelled water jug, soup plates, side plates, coffee mugs and saucers in sizes, a sugar caster, a rectangular serving dish, a slop bowl and other items
Provenance: Hicks Beach Estate. The majority of pieces in this collection originate from Williamstrip, Coln St Aldwyn, family seat from 1788 to 2008 and thereafter Mill House, Coln St Aldwyn. Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, succeeded his father as 9th Baronet of Beverston in 1854. He became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1864 and served twice as Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902. In 1906 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount St Aldwyn and in 1915 became the first Earl St Aldwyn.
Storage jars with perished rubber seals. One side plate is a second. One dinner plate with hairline crack and glaze crazing, another is cracked and stained. Another dinner plate with two large flakes to the sunflower design. One saucer/stand is unmarked and is probably a replacement or factory second. One medium sized plate is cracked, another is cracked across and restuck. Three small mugs with footrim chip. Three larger mugs with minor footrim chip. One larger mug with rim chip. The caster with a very small footrim chip. Some minor glaze crazing, glaze scratching and minor wear overall.
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