Birds, bugs and butterflies : Lady Betty Cobbe's 'Peacock' China : a biography of an Irish service of Worcester porcelain
by
Cobbe, Alec, author.
Title
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Birds, bugs and butterflies : Lady Betty Cobbe's 'Peacock' China : a biography of an Irish service of Worcester porcelain
Author
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Cobbe, Alec, author.
ISBN
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9781783274727
Personal Author
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Cobbe, Alec, author.
Publication Information
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2019.
Physical Description
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ix, 133 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Contents
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Beginnings : Meissen, Worcester porcelain and Dr Wall -- '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 Peacock service The service through the centuries -- Transcripts from Worcester and Cobbe archives, accounts and inventories Hypothetical tally of the original Peacock service Transcript of Christie's 1920 sale catalogue Known destinations of Cobbe pieces A note on the nomenclature of Worcester porcelain pieces Inventory of Worcester blue-scale porcelain from the original service, and reassembled pieces in Lady Betty's pattern now in the Cobbe Collection.
Abstract
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A major contribution to our knowledge of the Worcester porcelain factory in its early years, based on a single large and elaborate dinner service commissioned by an Irish family.
Personal Subject
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Cobbe, Elizabeth-Art collections.
Corporate Subject
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Cobbe Collection.
Royal Worcester Spode Limited.
Subject Term
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Worcester porcelain -- Collectors and collecting -- Ireland -- Dublin.
Worcester porcelain -- Private collections.
Worcester porcelain.
Worcester porcelain -- Collectors and collecting.
Geographic Term
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Ireland -- Dublin.
Bibliographical References
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805
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npmlib 11003357 NK4395 C63 yh
Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
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NPM Library | NK4395 C63 2019 | 11003357 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |