Alec Cobbe

Birds, Bugs and Butterflies: Lady Betty Cobbe's 'Peacock' China

A Biography of an Irish Service of Worcester Porcelain

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Produktbeschreibung

Temporary The early years of the famous Worcester porcelain factory established by Dr Wall have always been a little mysterious, owing to the destruction of the records of the business for this period. Alec Cobbe's discoveryof family papers listing the purchases over a period of years of a particularly beautiful and ornate table set have enabled him to give a vivid glimpse of how the factory interacted with its customers, He is able to describe the commissioning of perhaps the largest service of first period Worcester porcelain on record by Thomas and Lady Betty Cobbe for Newbridge House Co. Dublin. It was bought in stages from 1763 as the family travelled from Dublin to Batheach year, stopping at Worcester en route, as other Irish gentry did. The Cobbe servicet, uniquely in the context of British porcelain, was accompanied by a full set of Irish silver and steel cutlery fitted with Worcester porcelain handles matching the service. The various pieces of porcelain and their historical context are described as well as their painted decoration, and the sources for it. The later history of the service is outlined and its gradualdispersal in the 19th century, culminating in a final sale of the remaining pieces lot by lot in a Christies sale in 1920. Overall, the book gives an important insight into Irish social life and patronage in the mid-eighteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell and Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 143
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 215mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 881g
• ISBN-13: 9781783274727
• ISBN-10: 1783274727
• Artikelnr.: 56995295

Autorenporträt

Alec Cobbe

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements Beginnings 'Snuff for Dr Walls': the
Cobbes in Worcester and London Plans for Collecting and Entertaining The
Peacock Service and its Cutlery The Decoration of the Original Peacock
Service The Service through later Centuries, Sale and Reassembly Appendix
I: Transcripts from Worcester and Cobbe archives, accounts and inventories
Appendix II: Hypothetical tally of the original Peacock Service Appendix
III: Transcript of Christie's 1920 sale catalogue Appendix IV: Known
destinations of Cobbe pieces Appendix V: A note on the nomenclature of
Worcester porcelain pieces Appendix VI: Inventory of Worcester blue-scale
porcelain from the original service, and re-assembled pieces in Lady
Betty's pattern of birds, insects and butterflies