CIRCA 1795, THE FIRST WITH MARKS IN BLUE AND THE SECOND WITH MARKS IN PUCE, EACH WITH CROWNED CROSSED BATONS AND D MARK, PATTERN NUMBER 115, 8 TO FOOTRIM AND IMPRESSED H

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Two Derby (Duesbury and Keane) plates from a botanical service
Circa 1795, the first with marks in blue and the second with marks in puce, each with crowned crossed batons and D mark, pattern number 115, 8 to footrim and impressed H
Each with moulded lobed rim enriched in two-tone gilding with lily-of-the-valley, the centres painted with a specimen flower, the first with a hyacinth with two blue flowers and fanned-out green leaves with pink and white bases issuing from a rooted bulb named Hyacinthus Racemosus. Starch Hyacinth. in blue to the reverse, the second with a pink flower, perhaps an anenome, with yellow centre, bud, yellow and brown leaves and a brown rooted stem, and another bud (the blue enael on the first retouched, minor scratches and wear)
9 in. (23 cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

The botanical studies on the present lot and the following three lots were probably taken from Curtis' Botanical Magazine, a copy of which arrived at the Derby factory in 1792 (see John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain (London, 1980), p. 193, pl. 233.

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