David Foord-Brown Antiques

A HIGHLY IMPORTANT FLIGHT & BARR WORCESTER FLORAL SPECIMEN DESSERT SERVICE, CIRCA 1810.

PAINTED BY WILLIAM BILLINGSLEY

PROVENANCE: EX LAURANCE S. ROCKEFELLER ESTATE
SOTHEBY'S NEW YORK OCTOBER 2005

Comprising: Two superb tureens & covers, two oval dishes & twenty-four dessert plates.

Each painted with a different floral pattern upon a fading grey reserve within gilt vermiculi, decorated borders and wide banded gilt rims. Impressed & printed makers marks.

Reference: The Ewers-Tyne Collection at Cheekwood by John Sandon. Item 77, a plate from this unique service identified as being the work of William Billingsley.