Royal Crown Derby Dessert Service with Cobalt Blue, Gold & Hand-Painted Flowers

An unusual set of 12 Royal Crown Derby dessert plates featuring an elegant and restrained central subject of subtly different urns wit...

This magnificent set of 12, 19th century Royal Crown Derby service, presentation plates are fit for royalty with the subtle contrast of ivory...

This set is a great example of the iconic artistry and style of Royal Crown Derby. These plates are embellished with swags of vibrant hand-painted roses and two bands of acid etched...

An unusually decorated custom ordered dessert service embellished with an Art Nouveau style raised paste gold monogram on a undulating shaped rim plate. The set consists of 10 desse...

There is great and then there is magnificent and these plates made by Royal Crown Derby qualify as magnificent! This set of 12 dinner plates exhibit all of the characteristics of the...

A decorative and beautifully hand-painted set of 12 Cauldon dessert plates with shaped rims trimmed in gold with central floral decoration. Each plate depicts a unique flower arrange...

This is a beautiful part dessert service made by Royal Crown Derby in 1916. The service consists of one serving dish and ten plates, and is decorated with beautiful scalloped rims in turquoise and gilt, delicate flower garlands and a very find flower spray on each item. The Derby Porcelain factory has its roots in the late 1740s, when André Planché, a Walloon Huguenot refugee, started making simple porcelain toys shaped like animals. Local entrepreneur William Duysbury took an interest in his skills and worked with him to improve the quality of his wonderfully shaped items. Together they laid the foundations of what would become a very refined tradition of figure making at Derby. In 1769 Duysbury bought up the bankrupted Chelsea factory, incorporating their reputation for high quality figures, vases and tableware; this combination of traditions, porcelain making skills, sophisticated clients and available work people created one of the best porcelain factories of the 18th and 19th Centuries. The factory went through many ups and downs in the 19th Century and was completely re-constituted in the late 19th Century; today it is one of the very few factories still operative. This plate is a fine example of the Edwardian style with its grace, fine painting and delicate gilt. The pattern has similarities to the famous "Royal Antoinette...

A Royal Crown Derby Partial dinner service, twenty seven pieces, 20th century, in the Imari pattern, comprising of ten dinner plates and ten bread and b...

This is a beautiful part dessert service made by Machin around 1825, which is known as the Regency period. The items have the famous "moustache" moulding, a beautiful cobalt blue gro...

A magnificent large complete dessert service consisting of a high footed centre piece, four rectangular dishes, four oval dishes, three leaf dishes, two sauce tureens with covers and...

This is a very fine high-footed campana made by Royal Crown Derby in 1916 in the Edwardian style. The vase has a deep cobalt or mazarine blue ground with sublime raised gilt decorati...

We love the scalloped shape and nice gadroon edging to these handsomely painted set of 12 plates. There is a delightful center gilt medallion and the design features elaborate cartou...