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Longport, Staffordshire, c.1805-10
A Davenport soft paste porcelain plate, c.1805-10
painted with a Gros Bec, the rim and decorated in gilt, inscribed on the reverse ‘Gros Bec, du Canada. Longport’
9 ¼in. (3.4cm.) diameter
(4)together with a demi-lune planter from the same service, similarly painted with a Gros Bec and decorated in gilt, 5 ¼in. (13.2cm.) high; and a Sevres-style blue-ground coffee can and saucer, the porcelain probably 18th century, spurious interlaced LS marks, titled ‘Tourterelle de Canada’ and ‘Pergaly Ray’ and ‘Pergaly Raye’, incised letters and numerals, each painted with birds in landscape, the borders with bouquets and gilt oeil de perdrix pattern