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Twinight Collection
The shaped rim, border design and snowballing scene on this plate all appear to have been copied by the Derby factory from Nantgarw examples. The twelve-lobed rim is a Nantgarw feature and the decoration occurs on London-decorated Nantgarw plates. John Haslem, The Old Derby China Factory (1876), pp.207-08 discusses the Derby service made for Lord Ongley and records that the decoration was '...copied from Nantgarw plates, which had been decorated in London at Sim's establishment, from whom Mr Bloor had purchased them shortly before. The figure subjects were painted by a clever artist called Plant...and one was a winter piece with figures snowballing.' A Nantgarw example of the scene is illustrated by W D John, Nantgarw Album (1975), illustration 1 and the Ongley service version by John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain (2002), colour pl.202. The snowballing scene on the present lot is almost identical to the Ongley example, even down to the colours of the costumes worn by the figures. The border is different but is also taken from a London-decorated plate, see the Nantgarw example sold by Bonhams on 3 November 2016, lot 282.