A COALPORT ARMORIAL BLUE-GROUND PLATE painted with a crest and coat-of-arms above the motto UTCUNQUE PLACUERTE DEO on a pink ribbon cartouche, the well gilt with stylised ornament, the blue border reserved with three shaped panels painted with briar-rose within gilt C-scroll and flowering foliage cartouches beneath a white and gilt foliate rim (well rubbed), circa 1840
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A COALPORT ARMORIAL BLUE-GROUND PLATE painted with a crest and coat-of-arms above the motto UTCUNQUE PLACUERTE DEO on a pink ribbon cartouche, the well gilt with stylised ornament, the blue border reserved with three shaped panels painted with briar-rose within gilt C-scroll and flowering foliage cartouches beneath a white and gilt foliate rim (well rubbed), circa 1840
26cm. diam.
Lot Essay
The arms are those of Darby of Colebrookdale with Grant in pretence. Francis Darby of Sunniside House, Colebrookdale, married in 1808 Hannah, heiress of John Grant of Leighton Buzzard