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Plates

Duplicate set: Plate from ‘Rutherford White House’ dinner service takes $1500
22 August 2022During the administration of Rutherford Hayes, who served as the 19th President of the US from 1877-81, the White House commissioned a dinner service from the Haviland factory in Limoges.

Sèvres ‘Etruscan’ plates receive just desserts in Lincolnshire
11 April 2022Plates from a documented mid-19th century Sèvres dessert set sold for £36,000 at Golding Young & Mawer in Grantham on April 6.

Bonnie Prince Charlie’s pre-Culloden meal
06 September 2021On April 14, 1746, two days before the battle that would seal his fate, Charles Edward Stuart held a lavish meal at Culloden House, the highland estate owned by Hanoverian loyalist Duncan Forbes (1685-1747) that had recently been commandeered by Jacobite forces.

Porcelain table service with just the 248 pieces
22 March 2021No fewer than 248 pieces feature in this grand Paris porcelain table service painted with floral reserves on a green and gilt border and central flowersprays.

Russian imperial plate shows guards on duty
15 March 2021Included in Cottone Auctions’ March 27 sale in Geneseo, New York, this Russian imperial plate dates from the reign of Tsar Nicholas II.

Soviets on the rise: Bolshevik propaganda plate bring demand at UK auctions
11 January 2021When the Bolshevik government took control of the Imperial Porcelain Factory following the October Revolution of 1917, large quantities of glazed but unpainted white hard-paste porcelain plates, cups and saucers remained at the site.

Pick of the week: Vincennes Louis XV dish takes £95,000
21 December 2020This 12½in (32cm) Vincennes circular dish or plat d’entremets from the first Louis XV service sold for £95,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Woolley & Wallis.

Pre-emptions: stepping in at the fall of the gavel
19 October 2020Pre-emption, the right of a French museum or institution to step in at the fall of the gavel to claim a lot at auctions staged in France for purchase at the hammer price, is a common occurence in such sales.

Soviet propaganda porcelain plate makes over 100-times estimate in Stratford-upon-Avon
14 September 2020When, following the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik government took control of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, large quantities of glazed but unpainted white hard-paste porcelain plates, cups and saucers remained at the site.

Huge competition for Chinese export plates with Jacobite Highlands scenes
23 March 2020Among the most recognisable of all the famille rose porcelain designs produced in China for export to Europe are the so-called ‘Scotsmen’ or ‘Highlander’ plates.

Lord Burghley features in Chinese export porcelain selection at Pook & Pook in Pennsylvania
19 April 2019Pook & Pook’s next American and International sale in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on May 4 will feature a selection of Chinese export porcelain.

Barometer and dinner plate from the heroic age of polar exploration up at auction
30 May 2018When ‘collecting fields’ are talked about it can mean certain eras rather than just ceramics, glass or silver for example. The ‘heroic age of polar exploration’ is a classic example.

Pick of the Week: A double helping of Russian Raphael
05 April 2017Inspired by an exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of Raphael’s birth in 1883, Alexander III (1845-94) commissioned a porcelain dinner service for use in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoe Selo, writes Roland Arkell.

English delftware remembering a difficult year for George II – and the Queen’s teeth
20 June 2014The year 1737 was something of an annus horribilis for George II.

Stolen antiques now safe after ATG alert
31 March 2014A Derby porcelain plaque and two Japanese plates have been returned by Surrey Police to two stately homes after they were recognised from an alert in Antiques Trade Gazette

Worcester plate opens the day at £12,000
10 July 2010THE Lyon & Turnbull sale at Edinburgh got off to a splendid start when Lot 1, a Worcester porcelain plate from the Duke of Gloucester service, c.1770, sold at £12,000.

Russian plate sparks international battle in Wales
02 June 2008Yet another example of a British auction house benefiting from the craze for all things Russian was seen at Welsh auctioneers Rogers Jones of Colwyn Bay on May 27, when international interest clamoured for this Russian plate.

Not all the flowers are picked
04 January 2005KNOWN as Twelve Months of Flowers, a famous set of plates engraved by Henry Fletcher after original floral paintings by Pieter Casteels was originally produced as a sumptuously illustrated nursery catalogue of some 400 different species of flowers.

Stinton Junior is king of the castle
01 September 2004FOR four generations, and more than 150 years, the Stinton family of porcelain painters were represented at the Worcester factories.

Rare design at Ilkley Salerooms
24 August 2004FOLLOWING the sale of a Charlotte Rhead wall plate for an unexpected £2900 in October last year, the Ilkley, West Yorkshire salerooms of Andrew Hartley received another rare design by the industrial ceramicist for their sale of August 11-12.

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