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Worcester Square Dessert Dish, centre painted with a spray of flowers with elaborate gilded band and a 'wet' blue band and gilt dentil rim, 'W' mark, c1770

(p1072)

This delightful Eighteenth century Worcester dessert dish is of a square shape, exquisitely decorated with a colourful bouquet of flowers in the centre and having a 'wet' ground border. The border has an elaborate and very finely executed gilded border and the rim a dentil gilt finish. This charming early Worcester dessert dish is marked on the underside with an underglaze blue script 'W', a mark used at the famous Worcester factory in various forms c1755-70.

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The decoration of this Worcester dish is very elegant. The central bouquet of flowers is executed in colours that include pink, yellow, purple, orange and green. Flowers include fully blooming roses and lilies as well as other varieties. The foliage is in green with black line detail. It is a most charming feature of the dessert dish.

There are single leaf sprigs around the circular white centre of the dish.

The dish has a wide 'wet' blue ground border which is a rich blue which shines out, almost looking as if the glaze is still wet.

The blue border has on the inner edge a most elaborate and very fine gilt band of decoration. The workmanship that has gone into producing such fine decoration is quite remarkable. This gilding is in very fine condition too, which is excellent.

Each corner of the dish has a flourish of gilded decoration to the band including panels made with 'C' scrolling foliage in which it is scaled using extremely fine gilt lines.. Further gilded foliate decoration at the corners create a most charming design.

The rim of the dish is gilded and has dentil gilding to the inner rim.

The dish stands upon a raised square foot rim and the centre of the underside of the plate is marked with an underglaze blue script form 'W'.

This is a rare and beautifully decorated Worcester dessert dish from the Eighteenth century. It is beautifully decorated with a colourful spray of flowers in the centre and has a rich 'wet' blue ground border embellished with an amazingly fine gilt decoration. This delightful dish from the famous English Worcester factory dates from c1770.

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Size and Weight: (values are approximate)

	7¾" X 7¾" (195mm X 197mm) length X width of the dish.
	1¼" (33mm) deep.
	12½oz (358gms) in weight.

Marks:

This Worcester dessert dish is marked on the underside with an underglaze blue script 'W', a mark used at the famous Worcester factory in various forms c1755-70. This particular dessert dish with this type of decoration dates from c1770.

Condition:

This remarkable early Worcester dessert dish is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, repairs or restoration. The polychrome and gilt decoration are in extremely good condition with only the tiniest of wear to the dentil rim gilding. The only extremely manufacturing fault are a couple of tiny areas where the blue ground colour is a little dull where the glaze has not taken over it (see picture below). This is very minor and part of the dishes manufacture.