Set of 9 Hand Painted and Reticulated Accent Plates

A beautiful set of 12 porcelain 10.75 inch service plates with elaborate gold borders. The floral centers with lacy style borders each with slightly different bouquets and sprigs of ...

Elegant set off eight Bavarian chinoiserie silver overlay service dinner plates. Each with a chinoiserie sterling overlay decoration. Bavarian circa 1930s. Measure: 10 3/4" in diameter.

A regal set of 12 elaborately gild service plates, by Royal Worcester. The set with delicate broad gilt borders with a white porcelain background. The mark on the back from 1950.

A set of 12 elegant floral service plates made by Theodore Haviland New York. The Dresden floral center with gold band with a hand stippled teal broa...

Elegant set of 12 gilt and sage green border service plates. The plates with a floral borders in green with gilt outline details. The plates were retailed by Philadelphians premier j...

A set of 12 hand painted floral and gilt decorated luncheon accent plates, the 8.5 inches plates with elegant borders and center medallion, late 19th Century, marked Haviland Limoges...

A finely worked pair of antique Dresden reticulated cabinet plates. Each with hand-painted decoration. Diameter: ca. 9 1/2 in.   

This set of hand painted botanical dessert plates feature a vibrant floral subject in a varied palette and each is framed by an unusual Impres...

This gorgeous set of 10 19th century cabinet plates features harlequin, multi-color grounds with botanical motifs. Each plate is uniquely painted with a different botanical specimen....

Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, these sand drop edge dessert coupe plates from the Chestnut collection have an original golden drop edge decoration emphasizing the br...

Handcrafted in Italy from the finest porcelain, this white craquelé edge dinner coupe plate from the Chestnut collection has an original golden craquelé rim emphasizing the brilliant...

This is a stunning set of 8 reticulated plates made by Copeland in 1848. Each plate is decorated with a unique sublimely painted flower arrangement by the artist Greatbatch. We have a second set of 8 of these plates available, as well as a few separate ones; please see separate listings. The Copeland factory was the third iteration of the famous Spode factory, after the "Copeland & Garrett" period which transitioned into the "Copeland" period in about 1833. The Spode/Copeland factory was one of the most prominent potteries right from the start of English porcelain production in the late 1700s to the demise of the industry in the 1960s and ultimate closure in the early 21st Century. In fact it was the founder Josiah Spode who was responsible for the recipe for bone china that made English china production so successful in the two centuries to come. Throughout all the changes, their items have always remained of exceptionally high quality and many of the designs have become iconic. These plates were potted in fine white bone china, the rims meticulously reticulated in the "Gothic" shape. Reticulation was very time consuming and difficult, and just this detail would have made these plates expensive. The sublimely painted flower arrangements in the centre were done by Greatbatch, one of the well-known floral artists working for Copeland. Greatbatch was active between 1845 and 1860, and worked together with his brother R. Greatbatch, who was a talented gilder. They exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. These plates would have belonged to a sublimely expensive dessert service. They are all stamped with the small blue Copeland mark with interlocking C's, and painted in red with the pattern number 7913, dating it at the year 1848. Documentation: A plate of this service is shown on page 80 of Steven Smith's "Spode & Copeland: Over Two Hundred Years of Fine China and Porcelain...