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Birds, Bugs and Butterflies: Lady Betty Cobbe's 'Peacock' China - A Biography of an Irish Service of Worcester Porcelain (Hardcover)
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Birds, Bugs and Butterflies: Lady Betty Cobbe's 'Peacock' China - A Biography of an Irish Service of Worcester Porcelain (Hardcover)
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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. 2020 Winner of the
American Ceramic Circle Book Award 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
thebusiness for this period. Alec Cobbe's discovery of 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
Bath each year, stopping at Worcester en route, as other Irish
gentry did. The Cobbe service, 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 gradual dispersal in the nineteenth century, culminating in a
final sale of the remaining pieces lot by lot in a Christie's sale
in 1920. This book celebrates Cobbe's reassembly of more than 160
pieces of the original service over a period of more than thirty
years and their return to Newbridge following their exhibition in
the State Apartments at Dublin Castle. Overall, the book gives an
important insight into Irish social life and patronage in the
mid-eighteenth century. Alec Cobbe was born in Ireland and still
resides in Newbridge House, Co. Dublin, where his ancestors have
lived since it was built in the middle of the eighteenth century.
He practises as an artist and designer. As a passionate collector,
he added to his family's historic collections and assembled the
world's largest group of composer-owned keyboard instruments.
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