A Derby cabaret can and saucer, circa 1795. Pattern 119. Unusual handle.

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A Derby cabaret can and saucer, circa 1795. Pattern 119. Unusual handle.See our website periodceramicsandantiques. org. Description. Salmon pink ground as to the upper part of the piece, divided from the lower section, which is on a white ground, by a gilded zigzag line. Elongated teardrops running from the apex of the zigzags to the base of the piece. Parallel gilt lines enclose ovals, filled with dots and dashes, just below rim level. Dentil rim gilding. Unusual handle shape. Derby crown and batons over D mark.

Decorated with a superbly moulded border floral pattern of c-scrolls

a fine Davenport reticulated basket

The mounts with fruit and vine terminals

linking two small islets

but built up

the band being gilded with sinuous shapes

Two tiny rim nicks

Minor handling wear

A small patch of restoration to one rim

Pierced such that they may be adhered to a wall and decorated with the Cornucopia Prunus pattern

with the lamprey handle which was (rather inexplicably) popular on porcelain creamers of the mid/late 18thc (Worcester

painted with a polychrome river landscape