1770-1784, GILT D AND ANCHOR MARKS

细节

A CHELSEA-DERBY PART DESSERT SERVICE
1770-1784, gilt D and anchor marks
Painted en grisaille with a variant vase and covers within a berried garland looped and suspended from gilt rosettes, pairs of these rosettes alternate with grisaille cameo portrait heads within gilt bezels suspended on gilt rings from a filet edging the gilt dentil rim, a berried swag looped through each gilt ring and hanging down the sides of the medallions, comprising:
Two scalloped circular dishes, 9 in. (22.8 cm.) diameter
Two shallow shaped oval dishes, 10 1/8 in. (15.8 cm.) long
Two scalloped lozenge-shaped dishes, 12¼ in. (31 cm.) long
Four square dishes, 8 5/8 in. (21.8 cm.) wide
Twenty scalloped dessert plates, 9 in. (22.8 cm.) diameter (30)

拍品专文

According to John Twichett, Derby Porcelain, London, 1980, p. 302, the mark of a gilt script D overlapping horizontally with a gold anchor was used on wares produced and decorated at Chelsea after its merger with the Derby factory under William Duesbury I in 1770.