A WORCESTER (FLIGHT) SCALLOPED ARMORIAL PLATE FROM THE DUKE OF CLARENCE SERVICE

CIRCA 1789, BLUE CROWN, FLIGHT AND OPEN CRESCENT MARK

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A WORCESTER (FLIGHT) SCALLOPED ARMORIAL PLATE FROM THE DUKE OF CLARENCE SERVICE
Circa 1789, blue crown, Flight and open crescent mark
Painted on bright enamels and enriched in gilt with the arms of the Duke of Clarence and Saint Andrew enclosed within a blue Garter inscribed in gilt with the motto of this order, 'Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense,' and surmounted by a ducal crown, the garter entwined with a green ribbon suspending the Order of Saint Andrew and suspending its badge which centers crossed oak and olive branches, the border quartered with badges for the Order of Saint George, the Order of the Thistle, the Order of Saint Andrew and the Order of the Garter and linked within entwined blue Garter and green Thistle sashes forming a rinceau and enclosing crossed stems of rose and thistle between each badge, gilt line rim
9.5/8in. (24.4cm.) diameter

來源

With Wm. H. Plummer & Co., Ltd., New York

展覽

Winterthur, Delaware, Winterthur Museum, A3852 11

拍品專文

The present plate is from a service commissioned circa 1789 by H.R.H. Prince William Henry (1765-1837), later King William IV. The third son of King George III and Queen Charlotte, he is likely to have ordered it in celebration of the newly acquired titles of Duke of Clarence and St. Andrew bestowed on him that year.

R.L. Hobson, Worcester Porcelain, plate 105, fig. 3; also Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 1994, lot 103.