A JOHN RIDGWAY APPLE-GREEN-GROUND PART DESSERT-SERVICE, the centres painted with displays of ripened fruit on marble ledges within a border of white and gilt leaves outlining the wells, the borders gilt with foliage-scrolls within moulded scroll-and-leaf rims enriched in apricot and gilding and pierced with beads, comprising:

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A JOHN RIDGWAY APPLE-GREEN-GROUND PART DESSERT-SERVICE, the centres painted with displays of ripened fruit on marble ledges within a border of white and gilt leaves outlining the wells, the borders gilt with foliage-scrolls within moulded scroll-and-leaf rims enriched in apricot and gilding and pierced with beads, comprising:
A two-handled high comport,
Three comports of smaller size,
Four low comports,
Fourteen plates (one with riveted repair), (general wear to painted centres and to gilding), pattern numbers 6/6595 in iron-red, circa 1855

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Cf. Geoffrey Godden, op. cit., p. 196, no. 306 for a dessert-plate of this shape