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Twelve Worcester (Flight, Barr & Barr) porcelain armorial plates, circa 1825-1830

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November 9, 11:59 AM GMT

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3,000 - 5,000 EUR

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3,800 EUR

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Description

painted in the centre with the arms of Gresley and Coventry above the motto MELYORE FYDE QUAM FORTUNA within a pink-ground border decorated en grisaille with a formal scroll, shell and palmette border and gilt gadrooned rim, puce printed and impressed crowned FBB factory marks


Diameter 27 cm; 10 ⅝ in.

'Property of a Palm Beach Private Collection', sold, Sotheby's, New York, 29 March 2011, lot 138.

See Henry Sandon, Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840, Woodbridge, 1978, p. 211, where the author notes that this service was made for Sir Roger Gresley, 8th Baronet (1799-1837), who was an English writer and Tory politician and sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1837. In 1821, he married Lady Sophia Catherine Coventry, daughter of George William Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry.