Description:
Circular jiggered plate composed of a pearlware body with underglaze blue transfer printed decoration, the border of the plate has a repeating serrated leaf, the rim pattern is composed of large fruits and flowers, in the center well a couple ride their horses in parkland before a Classical mansion within a shaped rococo style cartouche of scrolls and shells. Transfer printed underglaze blue mark in ribbon cartouche on the reverse of the plate reads, "R. HALL's/ SELECT VIEWS/ PAINS HILL,/ SURREY./ Stone China" In the collection of the Memorial Hall Museum (PVMA) in Deerfield, MA, there is a similar plate of Pains Hill that was part of a set bought in 1832 by Caroline (Stebbins) Sheldon (1789-1865) of Deerfield, MA. She was the mother of George Sheldon, the town historian. From the Transferware Collector's Club database: Painshill Park, near Cobham, in Surrey, is a romantic landscape garden laid down between 1738 and 1773, by the Honorable Charles Hamilton (1704-86), 14th child of the 6th Earl Abercorn. Complete with serpentine lake, Crystal Grotto, Gothic Temple, a Hermitage and Chinese Bridge "to stimulate the senses and emotions of the visitor." An oak tree, perhaps the one on the left of the pattern, was dedicated to Lord Wellington: '...Yes, thou long-lived tree,/ His glorious deeds shall outlive thee'. Hamilton's garden soon became famous but he ran out of money and was forced to sell the estate, in 1773, to a merchant, Benjamin Bond Hopkins. Hopkins had inherited his wealth from an infamous miser 'Vulture' Hopkins. It was Benjamin who built the fine classical mansion in 1774-8. Painshill Park has recently been restored to its former glory and is now open to the public, the mansion, however, remains in private ownership. A hand-painted image of Painshill was used on the famous 'Frog' service of porcelain made for the Empress of Russia. A similar "Pains Hill" transfer-printed dish is in the collection of PVMA, and "this dish was part of a set bought in
1832 by Caroline (Stebbins) Sheldon (1789-1865) of Deerfield."
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