Queen Charlotte, together with several of her sons including the Dukes of York and Sussex, appears to have ordered several sets of lobed dishes loosely based on 17th century Portuguese examples. Examples by William Frisbee, 1809, and by William Pitts, of the same year, are known, as well as others, like the present example, which had been made by reshaping existing dishes. For a pair bearing traces of marks for 1766 and the maker's mark of the Crespell brothers and engraved with the cyphers of both Queen Charlotte and the Duke of York, see Christie's, New York, April 14, 1994, lot 389.