An assembled Derby yellow-ground botanical part dessert service circa 1800

each piece painted in the center, possibly by John Brewer, with a named flower specimen within a gilt laurel band, comprising: a scalloped lozenge-shaped dish, four lozenge-shaped dishes, five quatrelobed dishes, two small shaped oval dishes, two kidney-shaped dishes, a large circular plate and twelve dessert plates, painted crowned crossed batons and D mark, pattern number 216 in brown or blue enamel. 27 pieces.

Dishes: all with some minor wear to the gilding; one small shaped oval dish has been broken in half a glued back and there is a 3-in. curving haircrack to the rim. One quadrilobed dish has a long crack running from the rim at one end, in to the center and around one lobed side just above the foot; another has a 1/4-in. rim chip Plates: some wear to the gilding and enamels overall - several with considerable wear;one with a 1-in. restored and regilt rim chip; one with a 2-in. area of regilding to the rim edge; one with a 1/4- rim chip.
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The botanical painting on wares with this pattern number, adapted from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, published in 1787, has been variously attributed to either John Brewer or William 'Quaker' Pegg. A plate with a fluted border in this pattern is illustrated in John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, p. 216, no. 268, where the painting is described as 'possibly Brewer.'