Worcester Floral Pattern First Period Dessert Plate c1760

Description

Heading : Worcester Floral Pattern First Period Dessert Plate 
Date : c1760
Period : George II – George III
Marks : None
Origin : Worcester; England
Colour : Polychrome with a gilt rim
Pattern : A bouquet. small individual flowers and sprigs of leaves spread across the lip. cavetto and well; gilding to the rim

Features: Lobed rim with twelve indentations
Condition : Excellent; no chips. cracks or flakes; a little gilt-loss. tiny scratches apparent to the unpainted part of the cavetto and very minor kiln-spit inside the foot-rim
Restoration : none
Dimensions : 22.8 cm in diameter – 2.8 cm in height 
Weight : 312 grams

References: Coloured Worcester Porcelain Of The First Period (H R Marshall – 1954) page 165. plate 17. item 305 (similarly decorated)

Eric Knowles Comments : The colour pallete used for this piece helps to align it with other Worcester examples we have seen – notably the pale yellow (rather than Chelsea’s stronger. more mustard colour) and the ‘blackberry purple’.