Coalport bone china seaweed pattern part breakfast service, ...

Estimate

£60 - £80

Coalport bone china seaweed pattern part breakfast service, circa 1890, printed green factory marks, retailer's marks for T Goode & Co, London, pattern no.5387/B, printed in navy blue with trailing seaweed, within radiating gilt panel borders, comprising a muffin dish and domed cover, two two-handled shaped square plates, two large milk jugs, another smaller, a slop bowl, sugar bowl, two plates, 11 teacups, 11 saucers and 12 side plates 

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.