Enamelled on one side with a view of Buckingham House, and on the other with Gunnersbury House.
Mark to base with faint blue painted Furstenburg mark and incised 3 B
Condition: Very good, tiny nick to inside rim
Provenance: Rushbrooke Estate, Bury St Edmunds, the property of the Rothschild family. Paper label to base 3/8/49
Note: When George III’s son, George IV, acceded to the throne in 1820, he wanted Buckingham House to be transformed into a palace. He put John Nash, Official Architect to the Office of Woods and Forests, in charge of the work. During the last five years of George IV’s life, Nash enlarged Buckingham House and it became the imposing U-shaped building which is Buckingham Palace.
Gunnersbury House was demolished in 1801, and the grounds were bought by two owners, one of whom built a small mansion between 1806 and 1809. This house became the new Gunnersbury House. The image on the pot depicts the ‘old’ house.