Worcester Scale Blue Dessert Plate c1770

Description

Heading : Worcester porcelain dessert plate
Date : c1770
Period : George III
Marks : Worcester painted blue square ‘fret’ mark
Origin : Worcester. England
Colour : Scale blue with gilt edge mirror and vase cartouches with polychrome floral sprays.
Size : 19.4cm in diameter
Condition : Fair. Gilding excellent. 10mm slither chip on reverse and a 22mm very fine hairline crack running from the rim
Restoration : None
Weight : 290 grams

Wet blue. dry blue. mazarine blue so it should be scale blue. However this is “blue scale” to most collectors.