TRIO OF RUBY & GILT DERBY PLATES
English, 19th and 20th century, porcelain. Three (3) plates: the first of undulating pie-crust edges with fleur-de-lis, the well painted with fruits and florals and signed by John McLaughlin, impressed #B257; one of floral gilt overlay to a ruby ground marked for Theodore B. Starr, New York with 1886 date cipher; and one dark pink and gilt plate with blue anchor mark by Davenport, #1368.
Larger: 10 1/4 in. (26 cm.)
Davenport acquired September 16th, 1981, from David John Ceramics by Milton and Jeanne Zorensky;
By descent.

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