A part creamware dessert-service

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A part creamware dessert-service
printed, painted and gilt in muted sepia tones with the 'Darwin Water Lilies' pattern of flowering and seeding lotuses emerging from water within borders of looped ovolos, the rims accentuated in shades of yellow and orange, comprising: a low twin-handled tureen and cover; two quatrefoil dishes; an oval dish; two shaped oval dishes and nine plates, curved uppercase impressed marks, sunburst potter's marks, circa 1820 (some pieces with slight wear)

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This pattern is known as 'Darwin Water Lillies' as it is thought to have been used on a service given on the occasion of their marriage to Susannah Wedgwood and Robert Waring Darwin, who became the parents of Erasmus Darwin and grandparents of Charles Darwin

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