285. Two Worcester armorial plates, early 19th century, one Barr Flight and Barr, painted with the coat of arms for the Kerr family above the motto A Deo Lumen, within a wide purple vine leaf border, the other Chamberlain’s, decorated in sepia and gilt with the crest of a dog wearing a collar, the rim with fruiting strawberry tendrils, 24.2cm max. (2) £150-250
287. A pair of English porcelain plates, 1st half 19th century, decorated in London with scenes of Chinese figures, including a fishmonger and a woman preparing tea, the borders with panels containing fish and tea leaves and flowers respectively, reserved on an orange-red ground, titled in red to the reverse, one with an extensive description, one cracked, 21.6cm. (2) £100-200 The subjects depicted here were copied from George Henry Mason’s The Costume of China, which was published c.1800. Many of the plates were copied in turn from original Chinese watercolours signed by PuQua of Canton.
290. A pair of Chamberlain’s Worcester dessert plates, mid 19th century, the wells brightly painted with floral arrangements reserved on a white ground, the square rims with shaped gadrooned borders highlighted in gilt, impressed marks, 24cm. (2) £80-120
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286. Two Worcester armorial plates, one late 18th century and decorated in blue and gilt with the Prince of Wales feathers within a shaped rim, the other Flight, Barr and Barr, early 19th century and painted with the crest and motto for the De Burgh family, a mountain cat seated beneath a banner entitled ‘A Cruce Salus’, within a purple and gilt vine leaf band, 22cm max. (2) £150-250
288. A pair of Chamberlain’s armorial dishes from a dessert service, c.1820, the wells painted with the arms of the CliffordConstable family within gadrooned borders of three floral panels reserved on a claret ground, impressed and painted marks, 26.5cm. (2) £100-150 The armorial on the dish is of Constable quartering Clifford, Martin, Blount and Aston; impaling Chichester quartering Raleigh and Pownell for the marriage of Sir Thomas Aston Clifford-Constable, 3rd baronet of North Ferriby, Yorkshire to his first cousin, Marianne Chichester of Calverleigh Court, Devon on 28th September 1827.
291. Three Derby dessert plates, late 18th/early 19th century, one from the Pepper Arden Hall service, painted by William Billingsley with a central arrangement of fruit, another in the same hand with a central rose and forget-me-not sprig within a salmon pink border, the last with three bold floral posies, perhaps decorated by Leonard Lead, 25.8cm max. (3) £100-200
289. Two Flight Barr and Barr Worcester armorial plates, c.1830 and 1834, both decorated with the arms for Sophie Elizabeth Wykeham, 1st Baroness Wenman of Thame Park, one with a plain shaped shield, the other with the same shield surmounted by a crown and flanked by two greyhounds, each with shaped maroon borders, printed marks, 27.8cm. (2) £200-300 The Wenman title became extinct with the death of the 7th Viscount in 1800 but was revived for his granddaughter in 1834 as a personal favour from King William IV, whom she had come close to marrying in 1818.
292. A pair of Spode Felspar Porcelain botanical dessert dishes, c.1825-30, one painted with a branch of cherries and a narcissus spray, the other with pears and dog rose, within shaped gilt foliate borders on a green ground, puce printed marks, gilt pattern number 4494, 28cm. (2) £80-120