A Worcester dessert dish c.1785

A Worcester dessert dish c.1785, decorated in the manner of the Stormont service with swags of puce drapery suspended from bows within a gilt dentil rim, some wear, 28.7cm.

In the early 1780s Worcester produced a tea service for David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont, which copied a Sèvres pattern of turquoise fabric festoons. This puce version occurs on both tea and dessert wares.