Maker: Davenport
Period: Late Regency
Contrasting borders on this Davenport dessert plate from the Late Regency draw the eye to reserves of delicately painted flowers. The moulded outer border is filled with buttermilk-cream and gilt tree blossom, interspersed with six gilt-and-white quatrefoils. The inner border of underglaze dark blue is gilded with vine leaves and grapes. The six floral reserves are topped with gilt coronets. In the central reserve is a sprig of blue foxglove.
Several of the design elements closely resemble a Job Ridgway & Sons pattern – number 892 – from the 1808-1814 period.
Condition Good. A few spots of minor gilt rubbing and age-related micro-crazing of the glaze. A few tiny losses to enamel, mainly to one of the foxglove leaves in the centre. On the back, there is an old 3 cm-long hairline (see photo) only visible on the front on very close inspection, and extending 2 cm from the rim.
Diameter 212 mm (8.3 inches)
Net weight: 419 g
Medium: Bone china (Porcelain)
Origin: Longport, Staffordshire Potteries (Stoke-on-Trent), England
