Birds, bugs and butterflies : Lady Betty Cobbe's 'Peacock' China : a biography of an Irish service of Worcester porcelain

Title:

Author:

Cobbe, Alec, author.

ISBN:

9781783274727

Personal Author:

Cobbe, Alec, author.

Publication Information:

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2019.

Physical Description:

ix, 133 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Contents:

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:

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:

Cobbe, Elizabeth-Art collections.

Corporate Subject:

Cobbe Collection.

Royal Worcester Spode Limited.

Subject Term:

Worcester porcelain -- Collectors and collecting -- Ireland -- Dublin.

Worcester porcelain -- Private collections.

Worcester porcelain.

Worcester porcelain -- Collectors and collecting.

Geographic Term:

Ireland -- Dublin.