A Superb Quaker Pegg Painted Derby Plate With

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A Superb Quaker Pegg Painted Derby Plate With "Tulip" Study. c.1813-15.Description. Superbly painted in the inimitable style of William 'Quaker' Pegg, with a magnificent botanical study of an "Tulip". The quality of the painting matches the best work of Pegg, as illustrated, for example, in John Twitchett's "Derby Porcelain 1748 1848" (see colour plate 51 for a similar composition). The plate is possessed of elaborate border gilding, consisting of gilded scrolls and stylised foliage, alternating with gilded ovals, within

Painted with figures

It is rare to find platters of these proportions

arranged by category in our shop

The usual crazing

Meissen started to amend their decorative schemes from about 1740

This piece exhibits the green translucency typical of Christian's porcelain

Heavy wear to the border gilded decoration and to part of the pattern

probably Staffordshire

Each dish has a hairline

but this example is

on a white background

bounded by an upper gilt band