An unusual Derby card tray

An unusual Derby rectangular card tray, after a Sevres model, finely painted in coloured enamels with a named view of 'Newstead Abbey', within a lobed gilt panel, the pink ground with gilt vermicellae, the raised border pierced with anthemion and flower heads, and picked out in turquoise and gilt, 10" wide, circa 1820 - 25, crowned crossed batons mark and titled in red verso

Newstead Abbey was the family seat of Lord Byron 

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