The Fancy Fox

Description

A superb opulently decorated large Ridgway dessert dish with shaped rim with pierced handles formed as scrolled branches. Ornate relief moulded decoration to the walls of a criss-crossed diaper pattern background, inset with shaped reserves, and overlaid with flowers and foliage, and spreading leafy branches emanating from the handles and split by a large domed teardrop. The shaped centre is flooded with underglaze mazarine blue with a small oval reserve to the centre. The blue ground is densely covered with a stylised gilt flowering grape vine. The rest of the walls are coloured with a soft salmon enamel ground and smothered with gilt decoration of a flowering vine and the moulded details, handles and rim also gilded. Four small shaped reserves are each painted with a garden flower sprig in bright coloured enamels and further small gilded flowers. Pattern number 892 is painted to the reverse. c.1825.

It measures 29cm (10 3/8") long by 21.7cm (8 1/2") wide and 4.5cm (1 3/4") high.

In excellent condition with no damage or repair and very minor handling wear.
We are now taking a few days off for Christmas, back on the 5th of January. Wishing all our customers a very Happy Christmas!!

Orders can still be placed and queries will be answered as time allows. 

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We wish to ensure all our customers are happy with their purchases and offer a full no quibble return policy for all items returned within 14 days. We ask that returns are notified within 7 days where possible. Return postage is the buyer's responsibility in terms of cost and safeguarding the item through transit.