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Pair of Derby Botanical Decorated Porcelain Rim Soup Plates
19th Century
Each with an apple green border, one center painted with a pansy and the other with a poppy, diameter 10 inches;
Together with a Minton Porcelain Circular Footed Jardinière.
Height 6 inches, diameter 8 inches.

C Property of a Private Collector

Soup Plates:
Poppy: appears to be in generally good, undamaged condition; scratch marks through the center, consistent with age and usage; wear to gilding, most notably, to the inner thin band at the outer edge of the center; one small spot loss to the green colored border, not of any great consequence; not blacklighted
Pansy: one small flake loss to each of the two large lower leaves on the stem; there is a shallow flake loss to the underside of the outer rim edge of this dish (not visible when the dish is viewed from the top side); there is an old small shallow flake loss to the outer side of the foot ring of this dish, not of any consequence; not blacklighted
Jardiniere: appears to be in generally good condition; there are some scratch marks to the frieze with cupids and putti, not of great consequence; there are some small scattered (inconsequential) nicks to the rim edges of the bun feet; remnants of an added/later code are visible on th underside (not of any real consequence); stamped MINTONS on the underside
Provenance: Mario's Antiques, London, 2001
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