Lot Essay
Cf. Terence A. Lockett & Geoffrey A. Godden, Davenport China, Earthenware & Glass 1794-1887 (1989), p.185, pl.164 for a pierced basket.
Details
A Davenport pearlware part dessert service
printed, painted and gilt with loose sprays of fruit and berries on unfurled scrolls before an exotic bird, above shells and flowers, within a diaper-pattern well and a border of flowerhead panels, comprising: a shaped rectangular dish, a pierced stand, two shaped oval dishes, and ten dessert plates, impressed anchor marks, circa 1815 (rectangular dish damaged, shaped dish restored)
See Colour Plate 1
printed, painted and gilt with loose sprays of fruit and berries on unfurled scrolls before an exotic bird, above shells and flowers, within a diaper-pattern well and a border of flowerhead panels, comprising: a shaped rectangular dish, a pierced stand, two shaped oval dishes, and ten dessert plates, impressed anchor marks, circa 1815 (rectangular dish damaged, shaped dish restored)
See Colour Plate 1