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AN IMPORTANT FLIGHT BARR & BARR WORCESTER PORCELAIN JUG & COVER, CIRCA 1820. Of shouldered ovoid form, with an exuberant foliate moulded handle and exaggerated spout decorated with gilt thistles, the body applied with four bands of 'pearls', the cover with a thistle finial, painted with two gilt-edged panels reserving the arms of Gordon and a titled view of 'Lochnagarr” from the north bank of the Dee opposite Abergeldie', a large spray of thistles painted below the spout, the shoulder with the family crest of a deer hound below the motto 'GOD WITH US', 25cm high, title and script mark in red, cover with printed mark (2) Provenance: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon. Charles Dawson Collection. Illustrated by Charles Dawson, Worcester Flight & Barr Porcelain (2023), p.82, fig.8.11.It was presented to Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon by his friends. As the Chief of Clan Gordon, he was the first to bear the rather impressive epithet 'Cock O' the North'. Gordon was Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland between 1794-1806, again between 1807-1827 and received the Order of the Thistle in 1775. He raised the 92nd Regiment of Foot for the French Revolutionary Wars, later named the Gordon Highlanders and is also credited with popularising and formalising the breed standard of the Gordon setter .

 

Origin: English

Circa:1820

Availability: Sold

Stock Ref: A11170

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