Beschreibung:

A Derby Botanical dessert service, each piece painted with named specimen flowers comprising: Two two-handled sauce-tureens, covers and shaped oval stands, one with the cover painted with Stemless Aloeis, the tureen with Spotted Alstromoria and Austrian Rose and the stand with Campanula, the other with the cover painted with Venus's looking-glass, the tureen with double Anemone and Convolvulus Minor and the stand with Greater Blue Bottle, the (one cover with handle lacking, the other riveted, the two tureens and stands cracked and stained, the two stands stained), the stands, 8¾in. (22.2cm) wide; a shaped rectangular two-handled centre dish painted with Cape Viper Bird Bugless, the underneath painted with the Bladder Senna and Perennial Lupine, 11¾in. (29.8cm) wide; Four shell shaped dishes painted with Capella Pulchella Lychnidean, Wild Poppy and Wild Rose, (all stained) 9¾in. (24.7cm) wide; Two kidney-shaped dishes painted with Chinese Apple Blossom and Nasturtiums, (both stained) 9 7/8in. (25cm) wide; Two shaped-oval dishes with waved rims painted with Althsea Frutex and Double Poppy, (one riveted and stained the other cracked and stained); A Bloor Derby dish similarly painted with Yellow Sistus, (cracked and stained) 12in. (30.5cm) wide; Four lozenge shape dishes each painted with Yellow Lupine, Siberian Iris, Azure Convolvulus and Madagasker Periwinkle, (one riveted and stained and the other three stained),11in. (28cm) wide; Twenty-four plates painted with Wood Night Shade; Dark-Blue Flowered Upright Babiana; Trailing Daphne; Tulip; Scarlet Flowered Dahlia; Catesby Lily, Pancie of Hearts-Ease; Lychnis Chalcedonica, Scarlet Lychnis; Annual Blue Lupine; Beautiful Cistus; Gladiolus Byzantinus, Turkish Cornflag; Gladiolus Recivuius; Violet Tailed Cornflag; Common Corn Flag; Tulip; Whorled Coreopsis; Coreopsis; Pencea Aguamosa, Scaly Pencea; Mundi Rose; China Rose Hibiscus; Scarlet Glycine; Amarylis Equetris, Barbadoes Amaryllis, Cabbage Rose; Hoary or Rose Cistus; Alpine Aster; (seven cracked, three chipped and some with staining), 8 5/8in. (21.9cm) diam. iron-red Crown, crossed batons and D marks, circa 1810, Pattern No. 48 (40)