Period: Regency
Maker: New Hall Porcelain Works
This gorgeous New Hall Porcelain dessert plate is bat-printed with fruit overpainted with brightly coloured enamels and finished in gold. The powder-blue border is moulded in resist with paired birds and scrolling grapevine. The cavetto is decorated with an underglaze mazarine-blue band between gold lines, gilded with a chain of stylised laurel leaves.
The plate is unmarked but is New Hall pattern 1706 (see New Hall by David Holgate). The powder-blue border and its white moulded tracery design is identical to that of a New Hall part service from the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller that was sold at Christie’s in 2018. The Rockefeller New Hall porcelains were in pattern 1874 and enamelled in the centre with rose vine instead of fruit.
Condition Good. Some minor gilt rubbing, to one of the leaf fronds and to narrow bands around central reserve, and to outer edge of rim. A few inky spots are from decoration.
Diameter: 21.5 cm
Net weight: 377 g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
Origin: Stoke-on-Trent, England
