A London-decorated Paris plate from the 'Nelson Set Dessert Service', circa 1802 The border with brightly enamelled oak leaves and gilded acorns reserving two panels with blue enamel ribbons inscribed in gold 'Nelson Glorious 1st Augt' and 'Nelson Baltic', the centre with the full arms and insignia of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, picked out in enamel colours and gilding over a lightly printed outline, 22.5cm diam. Footnotes: Provenance Vice-Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson; Emma, Lady Hamilton; Private UK collection; Trafalgar-Nelson and the Napoleonic Wars, including The Matcham Collection, sold Sotheby's London, 5 October 2005, lot 90; The Twinight Collection. The 'Nelson Service' is traditionally believed to have been presented to Nelson in 1802 by the City of London. In that year Nelson was invited to ride in the Lord Mayor's coach in the latter's inaugural procession. Nelson's niece, Charlotte watched the procession and wrote to her mother...'I wish you could have seen all the people jumping up to the carriage to see my uncle and the thousands of people round him looking up at him... All the ladies had their handkerchiefs out of the windows when my uncle passed, they and the people calling out 'Nelson for Ever''. In the Merton or 'Trickey' inventory of Emma Hamilton's possessions, circa 1813, the dessert service from the 'Nelson Set' was listed as having four oval and four round dishes along with one centre dish and twenty six plates. One of the four oval dishes was sold by Bonhams on 23 April 2024, lot 49. See the footnote for this lot for more information on the service and its history. A similar Paris plate from the Nelson Service is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no.3313-1901. The service consisted of a Coalport breakfast set and Paris dessert set, all of it decorated in London. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing