A Derby Porcelain Billingsley Decorated Coffee Can c.1790

A fine Derby Coffee Porcelain Can c.1790. Painted by William Billingsley, with gilt panels of roses, the salmon pink ground heightened with gilt stars and `jewels`, gilt rims, crown, crossed batons, dots, D, pattern number in red, pattern 269.

See John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain 1748 - 1848, p.102; Murdoch and Twitchett, Painters of the Derby Porcelain Works, p.39 & 57

A lozenge-shaped dessert dish in pattern 129 with similar panels of roses , is ascribed to William Billingsley, illustrated by John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, page 50. See also a watercolour by Billingsley of running roses, illustrated colour plate 15, page 51

Condition: No damage. Both the gilded band around the rim and the base have been refreshed.