Six creamware dessert plates from the 'Baltic Set Dinner Service', circa 1802
Enamelled with a border of oak leaves and acorns reserving panels inscribed 'Nelson', above blue ribbons inscribed 'the Glorious 1st of August' and 'the San Josef', each cavetto titled 'Aboukir' and '14th Feby', the centres with a fouled anchor, 'Nelson, 2nd April, Baltic', enclosed by a laurel wreath, 20.8cm diam (6)
Footnotes:
Provenance
Probably Vice-Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson
Probably Emma, Lady Hamilton
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian (1847-1929); at Dalmeny House
Thence by descent
Sotheby's London, 5 October 2005, lot 170 (part)

The 'Baltic Set Dinner Service', as listed in the circa 1813 Trickey Inventory, included 41 dessert plates, as well as many other plates for soup, dinner and cheese. Although Lady Hamilton owned a separate porcelain dessert service of the Baltic Set pattern, dessert plates were also a standard component of any large dinner set. These creamware dessert plates will have been used alongside the sauce tureens that could also be used for sugar and cream.

Please see the footnote to lot 66 for information on the creamware 'Baltic Set Dinner Service'.