Dessert service, apple-green border, gilt, each piece painted in flowers and fruit, consisting of one tall compôte, seven oval dishes, four leaf-shaped ditto, two sauce-tureens, covers and stands, and seventeen plates. Bennett & Son, Dublin, June 18, 1902 27 10 0 Dessert service, decorated in Oriental colourings, 37 pieces. Brady & Sons, Perth, September 1, 1902 16 16 0 Dinner set, decorated with sprays, leaves, and flowers, comprising 119 pieces. Brady & Sons, Perth, September 1, 1902 25 0 0 Dinner set, decorated in scarlet, blue, green, and gold, comprising 133 pieces. Brady & Sons, Perth, September 1, 1902 45 0 0 Tea service, gilt and decorated, 45 pieces. Jabez Jones & Sons, Preston, December 15, 1902 28 7 0 Vases and covers, pair, large square shaped, decorated with landscapes, birds and flowers in the Chinese taste in sunk panels on dark-blue ground, gilt with foliage, and with dragon handles in high relief and figures on the covers, 42 in. high, on wood pedestals, painted white. Christie, December 19, 1902 21 0 0 Pair of Spode pastille-burners and covers, painted with flowers in the Chinese taste on dark blue ground, supported by three gilt dolphins, on triangular bases, mark in red, 7 in. high. Puttick & Simpson, July 9, 1920 6 6 0 Set of three Spode vases, gilt with foliage scrolls on dark blue ground, and with scroll handles, outlined with gilt. Puttick & Simpson, July 9, 1920 5 15 6 COPELAND. Vases, set of three, rich blue, gilt, white scroll handles, and painted in colours, with wild flowers, centre vase 15 in. high, side vases 13-1/2 in. high (marked “Copeland & Garrett, Felspar Porcelain, late Spode”). Edwards, Son & Bigwood, Birmingham, May 13, 1902 26 0 0 Dessert service of 24 pieces, pink ground, decorated with gold, the centres painted in panels of hunting and other sporting scenes, each different, marked “Copeland and Garrett,” centre compôte, two oblong, two oval, and four circular side dishes, and fifteen plates. De Rome & Son, Kendal, May 13, 1903 18 0 0 IX NANTGARW AND SWANSEA [Illustration: SWANSEA VASE. (With flowers painted by Billingsley.)] [Illustration: NANTGARW PLATES. Richly decorated in colours and gilded.] IX NANTGARW AND SWANSEA The history of these two factories in Wales is bound up together. Billingsley, the chief flower-painter of Derby, was the founder of the little factory at Nantgarw, a small village a few miles north of Cardiff.