A PAIR OF CHARLES BOURNE PLATES, the centres painted with a loose bouquet of garden flowers, the wells with a wide blue band gilt and heightened in iron-red with birds and foliage, the borders with flowers and lightly moulded with loose bouquets enriched in gilding, with lobed gilt rims, iron-red CB/51 marks, circa 1820, 22cm. diam.; and a pair of English porcelain blue-ground plates, the centres painted by E. Evetts with a loose bouquet within circular gilt line cartouches, the blue grounds gilt with stylised ornament within shaped gilt rims, circa 1880, 22cm. diam. (4)

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A PAIR OF CHARLES BOURNE PLATES, the centres painted with a loose bouquet of garden flowers, the wells with a wide blue band gilt and heightened in iron-red with birds and foliage, the borders with flowers and lightly moulded with loose bouquets enriched in gilding, with lobed gilt rims, iron-red CB/51 marks, circa 1820, 22cm. diam.; and a pair of English porcelain blue-ground plates, the centres painted by E. Evetts with a loose bouquet within circular gilt line cartouches, the blue grounds gilt with stylised ornament within shaped gilt rims, circa 1880, 22cm. diam. (4)

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Cf. Geoffrey Godden, Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain, col. pl. 1 for the first pair of plates

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