Lot Essay
Cf. Geoffrey A. Godden, Ridgway Porcelains (1985), p. 116, pl. 124 for a marked dessert service of the same form.
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A John Ridgway dark-blue-ground part dessert service
painted with loose bouquets of flowers within pale-yellow and gilt mirror shaped cartouches, flanked by gilt scrolls issuing flowersprays below shaped rims, comprising: a two-handled centrepiece, four circular two-handled dishes, two quatrefoil two-handled dishes, and twelve dessert plates, pattern 7198, circa 1845 (the bowl of centrepiece cracked and some light ribbing to gilding)
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painted with loose bouquets of flowers within pale-yellow and gilt mirror shaped cartouches, flanked by gilt scrolls issuing flowersprays below shaped rims, comprising: a two-handled centrepiece, four circular two-handled dishes, two quatrefoil two-handled dishes, and twelve dessert plates, pattern 7198, circa 1845 (the bowl of centrepiece cracked and some light ribbing to gilding)
See illustration (19)
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