Description
A Group of Decorative China Cabinet Plates & a 19th Century Ceramic Tray. To include a 19th century square serpentine edged dish painted with polychrome enamelled exotic bird, bouquets of flowers and insects edged with a gilt rim line with an impressed acorn mark to the base, 8” (20 cm) wide. A late 19th/early 20th century square dish having a central panel hand-painted with a cherub signed J Thorley in a puce surround within a border of delicately painted fruiting vine edged with gilded key pattern bands, 8½” (21.5 cm). A square Derby dish with polychrome painted floral sprays in gilt edged cartouches on a deep pink ground, 9½” (24 cm) wide. Three other flower painted plates in scroll edged panels enriched with gilding on a pompadour pink ground, 7¾” (19.5 cm) in diameter. A pair of plates hand painted with flowers in puce glazed borders, 8½” (21.5 cm) in diameter. Two Dresden plates with polychromed Fête champêtre in quarter segment panels alternated with floral sprays on pale pink ground divided by lacy glit bands radiating from a central roundel, one 9½” (24 cm), the other 8” (20 cm) in diameter. And a fine oval Copeland twin-handled tray decorated with bouquets of flowers framed by a pink border band enriched with gilt embellishments, 15¼” x 11” (39 cm x 28 cm).