19th Century Derby Aesthetic Movement Dessert Plates

This set of hand painted botanical dessert plates feature a vibrant floral subject in a varied palette and each is framed by an unusual Impres...

Imagine serving a first course or dessert course on these unusually shaped plates, all decorated in the Imari style and color way, highlighted in gold. The octagonal shape with notched rims adds a dramatic visual to the traditional round table...

This set of 12 Brownfield 19th century dessert plates exemplify the Aesthetic Movement at its finest. Each plate is uniquely decorated with a gold overlay depicting different fruit s...

This set of 8 Spode Copelands dessert plates are perfect for a dessert course at an intimate dinner and also likely to be used as display or cabinet p...

This set of 12 lovely aesthetic movement Spode Copeland's dessert plates feature an eye-catching geometric design decorated with cobalt blue, raised gold and best of all, hand-painte...

This set of 12 dessert plates is a fabulous example of the artistry of the Aesthetic Movement. Each plate is hand-painted in shades of raised paste gold, silver, green and apricot gi...

A set of 10 richly gilt porcelain luncheon or dessert plates. By Mintons. In an Aesthetic Movement numbered pattern with raised gold and gold jeweling throughout. Each marked to t...

This is a beautiful part dessert service made by Royal Crown Derby in 1916. The service consists of one serving dish and ten plates, and is decorated with beautiful scalloped rims in turquoise and gilt, delicate flower garlands and a very find flower spray on each item. The Derby Porcelain factory has its roots in the late 1740s, when André Planché, a Walloon Huguenot refugee, started making simple porcelain toys shaped like animals. Local entrepreneur William Duysbury took an interest in his skills and worked with him to improve the quality of his wonderfully shaped items. Together they laid the foundations of what would become a very refined tradition of figure making at Derby. In 1769 Duysbury bought up the bankrupted Chelsea factory, incorporating their reputation for high quality figures, vases and tableware; this combination of traditions, porcelain making skills, sophisticated clients and available work people created one of the best porcelain factories of the 18th and 19th Centuries. The factory went through many ups and downs in the 19th Century and was completely re-constituted in the late 19th Century; today it is one of the very few factories still operative. This plate is a fine example of the Edwardian style with its grace, fine painting and delicate gilt. The pattern has similarities to the famous "Royal Antoinette...

A Staffordshire porcelain botanical dessert service painted with flower specimens inside green leaf and gilt borders, comprising: fourteen p...

Pair blue and yellow gilt Derby soup plates. Pair hand-painted and gilt soups with alternating yellow and white striped gilt banded border with blue floral ...

Pair of 19th century majolica plates stamped with the makers mark Schramberg on the back. They are wonderfully colored and are in the design of three overlapping leaves , with berrie...

English derby plate, with an over glaze crown mark and is decorated with brilliant cobalt, red, and green floral patterns. There are bold gilt highlights.