Description
of lobed form, painted in polychrome enamels with peaches, a pear, cherries, black grapes, and redcurrants, the border decorated with butterflies within feuille-de-choux borders, the scalloped rim highlighted with turquoise line, gilt painted crescent mark
Dimensions
25cm diameter
Footnote
Provenance: The collection of Samuel Johnston Melvin, Paisley and thence by descent to the present owner.
Note: This plate is from one of the most elaborately decorated services produced at Worcester, designed for William Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1743-1805). All known pieces are marked with a large gilt crescent, a mark found only on a few richly decorated services produced in the 1770s. The service passed to the Dukes of Cambridge and, in 1904, Christie's sold over seventy pieces for the family along with a similarly decorated Chelsea service dating to circa 1762.