Tea and coffee service
Crown Derby
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1805 - circa 1810
Materials
Bone china painted in orange and gold.
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1270554
Summary
A partial 61-piece Derby oval shape tea and coffee set in the neo-classical taste, bone china, the border painted with a pattern of six-pointed stars in reserve against an orange ground with smaller stars in gold and gold line bands, comprising, a teapot and cover, a milk jug, a sucrier and cover, open oval boat-shaped sugar bowl of compressed globular form and cover, a slop or waste bowl, two bread and butter dishes, 20 bute-shape tea cups, 10 coffee cans and 21 saucers, with the factory mark of a crown over crossed batons and 'D' and pattern number 628 in blue and iron-red enamels, Duesbury and Kean period, circa 1805-10. According to Byran Merrett the service includes a puce mark, indicating that the service was made up of older stock.
Provenance
Believed to have originally been the property of Bishop Adelbert Anson (1840 – 1909).
Makers and roles
Crown Derby, maker