A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester Porcelain 'Princess Charlotte Pattern' plate c.1816 - 1820

A Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester Porcelain 'Princess Charlotte Pattern' plate c.1816 - 1820. Of circular form, finely painted by Samuel Astles, with panels of colourful flowers and insects set against a pale yellow background, the panels edged in raised gold, on an apple-green ground. 

This is the pattern used on the breakfast service made for Princess Charlotte in 1816 to celebrate the marriage of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales to Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later King Leopold I of Belgium, which took place in London on 2 May 2016. Charlotte was the only child of the future King George IV, but sadly died in childbirth on 6 November 1817. A plate is Illustrated and discussed by Charles Dawson, Worcester Flight & Barr Porcelain (2023), p.173, fig.17.8. 

Condition: Some light suface scraches and pitting to the ground colour. Some re-touching to the raised gilded around the cartouches.