Plate from a service commissioned by William Duke of Clarence later King William IV

Plate from the “Hope Service”

Flight's Worcester porcelain factory

About 1792

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Oval dark blue medallion with white relief scene depicting the classical subject of a muse and a genius The robed muse facing right playing a lyre that is mounted on a pedestal A shield with profile portrait rests at the base in front of a winged figure playing a trumpet
Tri color diced jasper green yellow and white bell pull
Small porcelain vase with bulbous body resting on small square foot the long thin neck tapers upward to a large flared irregularly round lip the main body covered with a creamy yellowish glaze with vein like mottling in shades of green the flat shoulder with a darker greenish glaze that lightens up the neck the upper neck and lip the color of the main body
Large heavy footed compote of black basalt from the range of Pomona Ware designed by Paul Follot and modeled by Bert Bentley at Etruria the wide foot with a band of beading around the edge the thick stem fluted and with a row of stylized leaves around the top where it meets the bowl the deep round bowl has a thick lip and is decorated with six large hand applied molded apples set among the leaves and twigs of an apple tree