This Chantilly dish has an ozier or moulded basketweave edge, and the centre is painted in blue with floral sprigs, a blue line to the rim.

A factory producing soft paste porcelain was established by Louis Henry, the duc de Bourbon, at his estate in Chantilly in around 1725. The early wares were primarily influenced by Japanese examples, although this later dish is decorated in a very popular design much copied by English porcelain manufacturers such as Worcester, Caughley and Isleworth. The decoration is identified with this French manufacturer to such an extent that the English name for the pattern is Chantilly Sprig. Worcester sometimes copied the Chantilly mark of a painted hunting horn in order to emulate the French original. Production effectively ceased after the French Revolution, and the factory finally closed in 1800.

As with all French Eighteenth-Century porcelain, it is considerably heavier than English examples of the same shape and size. The reverse is marked with a painted hunting horn in underglaze blue, and crossed swords. There is also an incised 'H', probably a workman's mark.

Condition: Excellent - no chips, cracks, or restoration.

Dimensions: Diameter 9 1/2" (24.1cm); Height 1 3/8" (3.5cm)