A very rare Wolfe Hamilton hybrid-hardpaste porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1805

A very rare Wolfe Hamilton hybrid-hardpaste porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1805 - Image 2

A very rare Wolfe Hamilton hybrid-hardpaste porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1805 - Image 3

A very rare Wolfe Hamilton hybrid-hardpaste porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1805 - Image 4

A very rare Wolfe Hamilton hybrid-hardpaste porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1805 - Image 5

A very rare Wolfe Hamilton hybrid-hardpaste porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1805 - Image 6

A very rare Wolfe Hamilton hybrid-hardpaste porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1805 - Image 7

A very rare Wolfe Hamilton hybrid-hardpaste porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1805 - Image 8

A very rare Wolfe Hamilton hybrid-hardpaste porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1805 - Image 9

A very rare Wolfe Hamilton hybrid-hardpaste porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1805

All three pieces painted in colours with arabesques and gilding within blue and gilt lines.

Diameter of stand: 17.9cm

Tiny impressed mark WOLFE & HAMILTON to base of stand

Condition: slight gilt wear to rims, tip of knop, and to gilt line surrounding centre well of stand.

Illustrated (without stand) in Field McIntyre (ed.), The Porcelains of Thomas Wolfe at Stoke on Trent (formerly Factory Z), see p.36. In the text on p.17, it is described as being of bone china, but it is in fact of hybrid hardpaste porcelain.

£690