This Ridgway dessert dish is of superb quality in terms of its manufacture and decoration, being richly painted with rustic landscape scenes set within shaped reserves. The underglaze deep blue surround is intricately gilded. This type of decoration was enormously popular on Regency dessert wares.

As with all Ridgway porcelain dessert and teawares of the pre-1830 period, there are no marks apart from the pattern number 1078 which is painted neatly in red on the reverse. A part dessert service in pattern 1078 is illustrated in colour in Godden's Ridgway Porcelains (1985), colour plate 5.

Condition: Very Good - no cracks or restoration, just a tiny chip to the footrim. The gilt and painted decoration is excellent and shows only minor wear from use in places.

Dimensions: Length 9 1/2" (24.1cm)

Geoffrey A. Godden , Ridgway Porcelains, (Antique Collectors' Club, 1985).