Lot 40

A PAIR OF DERBY PLATES

Closed11 March 1996

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A PAIR OF DERBY PLATES
Circa 1790, William Duesbury & Co.

The centres painted perhaps by John Brewer with figures boating and walking in lakeland scenes within circular gilt line cartouches within a wide band of overlapping gilt dentil lozenge and chain ornament, the fluted borders with a band of puce and green foliage enriched in gilding beneath waved gilt dentil rims, named in blue script to the reverses View near Esher, Surrey and Bally Finn Queens County Ireland (some rubbing to gilding), Crown, crossed batons and D marks and pattern no. 148 in blue
9 1/4in. (23.5cm.) diam. (2)

Specialist note

For another plate from this service see John Twitchett, op. cit., p. 190, no. 229