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Pair Of Caughley Lozenge Shaped Dessert Dishes, Blue & Gilt Floral Decoration 'Dresden Flower Pattern', c1790

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A beautiful pair of Caughley lozenge shaped dessert dishes, decorated in under glaze cobalt blue and gilding in what is known as the 'Dresden Flower pattern', dating from c1790. This charming pair of dishes has moulded fluting to their bodies and scalloped rims. Such dishes would have been part of a dessert service that would have graced a fine eighteenth century dining table.

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The decoration of the dishes includes a cobalt blue band around the rim on which is a gilt chain and dot pattern. The rim of the plate is gilded and there is a band of gilded full circles running around the plate below the blue band.

Within the bowl of the dishes are a multitude of flower sprigs, each of which are executed in under glaze blue and embellished with further fine rich gilding to create a most charming design.

The dishes are raised on an elliptical shaped foot rim.

Both of these charming dessert dishes are of the same size and shape and decorated with the same blue and gilt design. The detailed pictures of each dessert dish are given below.

Details of dessert dish one:

Details of dessert dish two:

This is a delightful pair of Caughley porcelain dessert dishes from the eighteenth century c1790, that would be a delightful addition to any collection of Caughley porcelain.

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Size and Weight: (values are approximate)

	10¼" (260mm) length of each dish.
	6¾" (175mm) width of each dish.
	1½" (40mm) depth of each dish.
	1lb 12oz (791gms) combined total weight of the pair of dishes.

Marks:

There are no manufacturer's marks on these dessert dishes, but are from the Caughley factory and would date from c1790.

Condition:

It is wonderful to fine a pair of dessert dishes that is in such fine condition. There are no cracks and there has been no restoration. The only minor imperfections is some expected wear to the gilding, this is mostly to the high spots of the moulded dish and to the rims. However, this slight wear of the gilding certainly does not detract from the sheer beauty of these dessert dishes.

Also, dessert dish one, appears to have a very tiny and old looking chip to the foot rim, (shown in the two pictures below). However, I think that this may have been a tiny fault at the time of manufacture rather than a latter chip. Either way, it is tiny and being on the foot rim does not easily show.

These are certainly a very fine pair of Caughley dessert dishes that date from the late eighteenth century, c1790. A wonderful pair of dessert dishes for the connoisseur collector of Caughley or early English porcelain and would certainly grace a dinning table beautifully.