Ridgway Porcelain Botanical Eighteen Piece Desert Service With Fruit

Description

Ridgway Porcelain Botanical Dessert Service decorated with Fruit,
John Ridgway ( & Co.),
Eighteen Pieces,
Circa 1830

The dessert service … more Ridgway Porcelain Botanical Dessert Service decorated with Fruit,
John Ridgway ( & Co.),
Eighteen Pieces,
Circa 1830

The dessert service is decorated with lovely grey ground panels overlaid with gold flowers and scroll work with a central painted botanical design of fruits and flowers, each piece depicting a different fruit, with relief-molded edge and border shape with molded flowers near the rim.

The service consists of the following eighteen pieces:

Thirteen plates with painted fruits and flowers including pears, apples, strawberries, cherries and gooseberries (8 3/4 inches), One plate with hairline.

Four two handled square serving dishes with painted plums and cherries with flowers (10 inches)

One two-handled rectangular serving dish with painted gooseberries and flowers.

Marked 2/535 on bottom

(Ref: NY10607-VM) less