Description
Twelve Fine China Cabinet Plates, elaborately decorated and enriched with gilding. To include a Victorian square dish polychrome enamelled with floral bouquets and sprigs in gilt edged reserves to a cobalt blue scaly ground, 8½” (21.5 cm) wide. A Coalport plate with gilt-edged cartouches containing rose bouquets and birds on a cobalt blue ground, 9¼” (23.5 cm) in diameter. A botanical plate by Spode Copeland decorated with a tulip & lilac to the centre in a rich blue border with gilded embellishments. A pair of serpentine edged Coalport plates. An ornithological plate by Aynsley with T. Goode & Co retailers mark. Others by Aynsley, Ridgway, Royal Crown Derby, and two 20th century plates by Royal Worcester 10½” (27 cm) in diameter.