A Coalport Botanical Porcelain Footed Dessert Dish 1805-10

Description

Heading :  A Coalport Botanical Porcelain Footed Dessert Dish of Square and Shaped Form
Date : 1805-1810
Period : George III
Marks : None
Origin : Coalport. Shropshire.
Colour : Polychrome and Gilt
Pattern : Botanical specimen and elaborate gilt border
Features : Puce painted title in script ‘Convolvulus Nil’
Condition : Some staining to underside and some wear to the glaze on the raised ridges inside the cavetto
Restoration :None
Dimensions : 21.5cm at widest
Weight : 536 grams

Eric Knowles Comments

 A Coalport Botanical Dessert service of this same form and decoration with a yellow. rather than elaborate gilt. border is in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen. See: Coalport and Coalbrookdale Porcelains. Godden G A plate 26