TWELVE ROYAL WORCESTER DESSERT PLATES
TWELVE ROYAL WORCESTER DESSERT PLATES

DATE CODE FOR 1955, BLACK PRINTED MARKS, PATTERN NO. Z2113, SIGNED FREEMAN

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TWELVE ROYAL WORCESTER DESSERT PLATES
Date code for 1955, black printed marks, pattern no. Z2113, signed Freeman
Each finely painted in colours with branches of fruit, blossoms, seeds and scattered insects within scalloped gilt rims suspending gilt grasses enclosing sprigs of fruit and flowers
9 1/8in. (23.3cm.) diameter (12)

Lot Essay

John H. Freeman joined Royal Worcester in 1925 and specialized in painting fruit. According to Henry Sandon, Royal Worcester Porcelain, London, 1978, p. 93, Freeman was known as the 'fruit machine'.

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