Plate
Derby Porcelain Works
Category
Ceramics
Date
1790
Materials
Soft paste porcelain
Measurements
215 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Derby
Order this imageCollection
Greenway, Devon
NT 118747.3
Summary
One of three plates from a Derby porcelain part dessert service, circa 1790, painted with central groups of flowers inside cobalt blue and gilt borders. Puce painted pattern mark, pattern 100, minor wear to gilding. Ferguson 'Plate, soft-paste porcelain, from a part dessert service, fluted rim, painted in the centre with a spray of flowers below the cobalt blue and gilt line rim, factory mark crowned batons and D in puce, pattern number 100, Derby c 1790. Note ; pattern 100 is ascribed to William Billingsley in the Derby factory pattern books. A similar service was formerly owned by the Rothschild Family.'
Provenance
Introduced to the Property by Anthony Hicks
Marks and inscriptions
Puce painted pattern mark
Makers and roles
Derby Porcelain Works, potter