English Derby Plate

This set of eight Staffordshire plates are decorated with stylized flowers, leaves, and urns. There are gilt highlights that have wear in some areas. There are no markings, but the s...

Pair of English ironstone soup plates, with a scalloped and beaded rim, the border has a repeating pattern of stylized flowers and foliate, the interior of ...

These soup plates have scalloped edges that frame a border with a rare yellow background containing stylized leaf clusters and round star lozenges interspersed with four cobalt carto...

These soup plates have scalloped edgeas that frame a border with a rare yellow background containing stylized leaf clusters and round star lozenges interspersed with four cobalt cart...

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 ...

An unusual set of 12 Royal Crown Derby dessert plates featuring an elegant and restrained central subject of subtly different urns wit...

Antique Derby Porcelain Botanical Salmon-ground Plate, Marsh Hibiscus, by John Brewer after Curtis, The Botanical Magazine, #882, 1806, circa 1815. The Derby Porcelain plate is superbly painted with a Marsh Hibiscus botanical specimen with richly gilded borders with swans and stylized flowerheads on a rich salmon ground.y gilded borders with swans and stylized flowerheads are on a rich salmon ground. The flower is named on the reverse: "Marsh Hibiscus". Diameter: 8 7/8 inches (22.5 cm) Mark: crown, crossed batons, and D mark in red, numerals 4 & 13 in yellow & green inside foot rim. John Brewer, (1764-1816) John was the elder of two brothers who both worked at Derby. Their parents were both artists and from 1762-1767 had studios in London at Rupert Street. Brewer started working at Derby in 1795. He was a talented watercolorist and had never applied his art to porcelain painting. At Derby, he painted a variety of subject matters including plant and flower painting. The Botanical Magazine is one of the oldest - and longest-published - of the British botanical...

Antique Derby Porcelain Botanical Salmon-ground Plate, Annual Lavetera, by John Brewer, Circa 1815. The Derby porcelain plate is boldly p...