Serving dish
Davenport Ltd (c.1793-1887)
Category
Ceramics
Date
1815 - 1820
Materials
Bone china
Measurements
85 x 365 x 205 mm
Place of origin
Longport
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 771306.1
Summary
One of a pair of 'comports' or dishes or bread baskets, bone china, rectangular, with a carrying handle in the shape of a scallop shell at each end. Gilded and enameled decoration with a figure of a mounted horseman in a central circle, Davenport, Longport, Staffordshire, circa 1815-20.
Provenance
[?acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for Osterley Park House]
Marks and inscriptions
Press marked into the base of the ceramic body 'Davenport, Longport Staffordshire'.
Makers and roles
Davenport Ltd (c.1793-1887), maker