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Lot 231

A Derby plate and a soup plate from the Duke of Northumberland Service, circa 1779 and 1791

27 November 2024, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£400 - £600

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A Derby plate and a soup plate from the Duke of Northumberland Service, circa 1779 and 1791

Painted with six sprigs of pink roses, the light blue enamel borders with oeil de perdrix in raised white enamel and gold, reserving three panels of similar flowers, 24.7cm and 25.5cm diam, one with crown and D mark in blue, the other with crown, crossed batons and D mark in puce (2)

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Provenance
McCormick Collection

Twenty-four soup plates were supplied to the second Duke of Northumberland in 1791 as a matching to an earlier Chelsea-Derby service likely to have been ordered on the occasion of his second marriage in 1779. The London Day Book for 25 April 1791 refers to them as being decorated with the same pattern as the earlier pieces 'enam'd groups of roses, rich mosaic border on a light blue ground to match'. The original service was painted by Edward Withers, but the replacements are likely to be by William Billingsley. For a discussion, see Stephen Mitchell, The Marks on Chelsea-Derby and Early Crossed-Batons Useful Wares (2007), p.50-52.

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