Plate
The Royal Worcester Porcelain Co. Ltd. (1862 to date)
Category
Ceramics
Date
1862 - 1960
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
252 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 513512.2.1
Summary
One of 2, soup plate. Worcester part dinner service. Each piece painted with grisaille portrait of female in draped costume, on sea shore with ship in distance. Dark blue border with gilt decoration. Marked 'Flight' with crown above and crescent below in blue. Label on reverse of one of the plates 'The celebrated Worcester Service presented to Lord Nelson by the British Nation, the property of the Earl of Erroll. Messrs Christie Manson and Woods ... sell by auction May 11 (1893) the celebrated Dinner Service of Old Worcester Porcelain (consisting of upwards of 260 pieces) presented by the British Nation to Lord Nelson, the Hero of the Nile, by whom it was bequeathed to King William IV, and presented by him to Lord Frederick FitzClarence, and now the property of Lord Erroll.'
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Makers and roles
The Royal Worcester Porcelain Co. Ltd. (1862 to date)