An extremely rare Coalport plate

An extremely rare Coalport plate, superbly painted in coloured enamels with 'Bedreddin's flight from Cairo', after Robert Smirke, the gilt key-fret border with a lion rampant crest, 8 1/4" diameter, titled in black verso, dated 1807, and inscribed John Duncombe Taylor 

Provenance: From a dessert service with views taken from The Arabian Nights, presumably commissioned by John Duncombe Taylor,of Bristol, the owner of Little Sion and Sion Hill Estates, Antigua. Another plate from this service is in the Victoria and Albert Museum 

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