An English creamware Dutch-decorated plate
painted with portraits of William V of Orange and Princess Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina in profile to the right, flanking a fruiting tree, inscribed, below swags within shaped rims, circa 1787 (very minor deterioration to enamels) -- 24cm. diam; and another smaller related plate -- 18cm. diam. See colour plate 3 (2)
Lot Essay
Cf. Peter Walton Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds (1976), p. 205, pl. 844.