拍品專文
Ian Pickford suggests that with it's use of the symbolic plants of the United Kingdom; oak leaves, acorns and roses for England, shamrocks for Ireland and thistles for Scotland; and it's earliest appearance in 1830, that this pattern was first produced to commemorate the coronation of William IV, (I. Pickford, Silver Flatware English, Irish and Scottish 1660-1980, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 130, fig. 190).