A pair of Worcester plates

A pair of Worcester plates, from the Burdett Coutts Service, painted in coloured enamels with four radiating sprays of flowers and leaves, within fine gilt cartouches, and with smaller panels of flowers and leaves, on a wet blue ground, gilt dentil rim, 8 1/2" diameter, circa 1770, blue fret marks

Provenance; Baroness Burdett Coutts, and sold by her family in 1922

See John Sandon, The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, page 85, for another plate from this unique service 

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