Canterbury Auction Galleries
Lot 1
A 19th Century Ridgways porcelain dessert service with shaped and moulded borders, the whole enamelled in colours with differing mixed floral sprays on a royal blue, buff and gilt decorated ground, comprising - oval two-handled comport, 9.25ins x 15.5ins x 6.5ins high, circular two-handled sauce tureen, the cover with moulded finial, and stand for same, 6.5ins high, pair of oval two-handled dishes, 8.5ins x 11.5ins, pair of square two-handled dishes, 9.75ins x 10.75ins, pair of ovoid single handled dishes, 8.75ins x 9.5ins, and twelve 8.75ins diameter two-handled plates (20 pieces Ð unmarked apart from pattern number in red, No. 1177, thought to be by John and William Ridgway, Cauldon Place and Bell Works, Shelton, Hanley, Staffordshire, circa 1825 Ð shape in Geoffrey Godden's book on Ridgway, plate 41)