Caughley Cake or Bread & Butter Plate, New Fluted Form, 'Royal Stripe & Festoon' Decoration, c1790

(p1081)

A very elegant Caughley circular cake or bread and butter plate dating from c1790. The shape is of the 'new fluted' design and is beautifully decorated with a pattern known as 'Royal Stripe & Festoon' in underglaze blue and rich honey coloured gilding. There are no manufacturer's marks on the plate but it is from a set where several pieces are marked with the underglaze blue Salopian  'S'  used at the famous Shropshire Caughley factory c1775-90.

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The plate has the Royal blue stripe equally spaced in six positions round its body. The centre of each blue stripe has a white gap in which there is a blue diamond in a gilt circle. The blue stripes are bounded with gilded lines and on the blue strip a gilded cross design.

Between the blue stripes are festoons of stylised flowers and foliage in underglaze blue and gold. It is certainly a very elegant design of decoration.

The plate has a scalloped  rim which is also gilded.

In the centre of the plate is an underglaze blue and gilded star within a gilded circle.

This is an extremely elegant Caughley circular cake or bread and butter plate, decorated with the 'Royal stripe and Festoon' design, c1790.

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Size and Weight: (values are approximate)

Marks:

There is no manufacturer's mark on this plate. However, it is from a set where several pieces were marked with the underglaze blue Salopian  'S'  used at the famous Shropshire Caughley factory c1775-90.

Condition:

This charming Caughley cake or bread and butter plate is very good condition with no chips, cracks, repairs or restoration. The only extremely minor imperfections are some slight wear to the gilding, this mainly to the high spots on the plates rim, but this is extremely minor. Also there are a few nibbles to the underside foot rim, but these are glazed and thus part of the plate's manufacture and are extremely minor. (see the two pictures below).

A most beautiful and elegant cake or bread and butter plate for the collector of Caughley or early English porcelain from the eighteenth century. Where there are many tea bowls and saucers to a set, there are only a pair of such plates, making it much more rare.

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