A DERBY BOTANICAL PART DESSERT-SERVICE painted by John Brewer with specimen flower-sprays, named on the reverses in Latin and English in blue script, the fluted borders gilt with foliage pendant from a band beneath waved gilt rims, comprising:

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A DERBY BOTANICAL PART DESSERT-SERVICE painted by John Brewer with specimen flower-sprays, named on the reverses in Latin and English in blue script, the fluted borders gilt with foliage pendant from a band beneath waved gilt rims, comprising:
A lozenge-shaped low tazza (restored)
Two oval two-handled sauce-tureens, covers and shaped stands (both covers, one tureen and one stand restored)
Four lozenge-shaped dishes
Four circular dishes
Two oval dishes
Two kidney-shaped dishes (one with crack to footrim)
Twenty-four plates (one with chip to underside of rim)
Crown, crossed batons and D marks and pattern no. 115 in blue, Duesbury & Kean, circa 1800

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Lot Essay

Cf. John Stanley Clarke, 'Curtis Botanical Magazine and the Derby Botanical Dessert Services', Antique Collecting, November 1983; also the yellow-ground Botanical service sold in these Rooms on 9 October 1989, lot 321

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