An extremely rare Coalport plate

An extremely rare Coalport plate, superbly painted in coloured enamels with 'The Lady of the Glass', after Robert Smirke, the gilt stiff leaf border with a lion rampant crest, 8 1/4" diameter, dated 'Feby 19th 1807' and inscribed John Duncombe Taylor

Provenance; From a dessert service with views taken from The Arabian Nights, presumably commissioned by John Duncombe Taylor, from 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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