A fine pair of Royal Crown Derby plates

A fine pair of Royal Crown Derby plates, from the Vernon Harcourt Service, each painted in coloured enamels with a spray of flowers and leaves, the blue ground border decorated in raised paste gilding with flower garlands, flower head diaper designs and oval 'jewelled' panels, within a gilt leaf moulded rim, 8 1/2" diameter, printed marks in gilt for 1899 and each inscribed 'Presented to Mr and Mrs Lewis Vernon Harcourt with the best wishes of the Liberals of Derby, June 6th 1899'

Lewis Vernon Harcourt  (First Viscount Harcourt), was Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1910-15 

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