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Royal Worcester Dessert Service, Handpainted and Enamelled with Birds, Butterflies and Ladybirds in the manner of John Hopewell & George Hudley. Each piece contain a vibrant bouquet of summer flowers bursting with bright evervescent colours and birds and butterflies flying around wanting that sweet nectar all done on a most exquisite turquoise or pastel mint ground.

This service comprising three tazzas and three low comports and a set of fifteen dessert plates. Each piece is Jewelled at the edges or rims.

This Dessert Service comprises of 21 Pieces. 

This collection will grace any tables with royal style and can only add glamour to your meal. 

Pattern 9357, puce printed backstamps.

Condition: In excellent condition for age. No restoration.

 

Royal Worcester can trace its roots as far back as 1751 when a conglomerate of fifteen men founded a porcelain factory in the city of Worcester.

There is some dispute as to whether Royal Worcester is the oldest English porcelain brand still in existence today, as Royal Crown Derby claim their establishment date as 1750. However, this still means that Royal Worcester is either the oldest or second oldest brand still operating today.

Before 1751, John Wall, a medical doctor, and William Davis, an apothecary, were experimenting with ways of developing porcelain that could be used to underpin prosperity and employment opportunities in Worcester.

The early results of these experiments are unclear, but sometime during 1750-51, the two men met with the Bristolian porcelain manufacturer Lund & Miller, who was, rather uniquely, using steatite as a raw material in their own porcelain production, which encouraged the two men to step up their efforts.

In 1751, Wall and Davis persuaded a group of thirteen other businessmen to bankroll a new factory in Warmstry House, on the banks of the River Severn.

Wall and Davis recouped an investment sum of £4,500; a considerable sum in those days. Using this investment, the men set up what was then known as The Worcester Tonquin Manufactory.

 

19th Century Royal Worcester Enamelled Dessert Service

SKU: 088
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