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Three English armorial porcelain dishes, 19th century, the…
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Melbourne
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22-Jun-2020
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Three English armorial porcelain dishes, 19th century, the first plate with a reticulated edge, intricately decorated in raised gilding. The centre bearing the Prince of Wales crest finely hand-painted in the centre with the motto 'Ich Dien' alongside the city of London arms with motto 'Domine Dirige Nos'. Being one of sixty Copeland armorial plates that were made when the Freedom of the city of London was bestowed on Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on June 8th 1863, shortly after his marriage to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. Soon after the banquet, the plates were individually sold by auction to members of the London Corporation. Bears the Copeland factory mark to reverse. The second a soup bowl, with a gadrooned edge with an elaborately gilded edge and cavetto, enclosing a central coronet to centre. Marked Spode Felspar porcelain to reverse. The third, a Coalport dessert plate, circa 1805, with a basket weave moulding and spiral flutes, having the central gilt cipher of 'Sjp' for Spencer and Jane Perceval. Painted to the centre with the crest of a flowering thistle within a gilt foliate band, and made for Spencer Perceval, the only British prime Minister to be assassinated when he was shot in the lobby of the house of Commons on 11th May 1812. The John scarce collection, 22.5 cm, 25.5 cm and 23.2 cm diameter
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