
Anna Burnside
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The combination of the Marquess's and Baron's coronets gives a clue as to the possible owner of this plate. In 1807 there were only sixteen Marquesses. That year, George Townshend (1755-1811), inherited the marquessate of Townshend from his father. He was already styled Baron Ferrers of Chartley, having previously inherited this ancient barony from his mother. Worcester's marks on the plate place production very close to 1807, when the Prince of Wales announced his patronage of the factory, but incised B marks were still evidently being used from the recent Flight and Barr partnership. No other example of this service is known. Perhaps this was a specimen plate, and the cost of such large landscape panels and detailed gilt borders proved prohibitively expensive to put a full service into production.