The large porcelain serving Dish with a named landscape scene surrounded by gilt vermicelli decoration. Unusually, scenes on this service depict a ruin or abandoned site in the British Isles.
Script name of scene ‘Cerne Abbey’, printed and impressed factory marks on reverse. Barr, Flight, and Barr Worcester, England, 1804-1813
Cerne Abbey in Dorset was a Benedictine monastery founded in 987AD, and remained operating until the Dissolution of the Monastaries act under Henry VIII.
The large porcelain serving Dish with a named landscape scene surrounded by gilt vermicelli decoration. Unusually, scenes on this service depict a ruin or abandoned site in the British Isles.
Script name of scene ‘Cerne Abbey’, printed and impressed factory marks on reverse. Barr, Flight, and Barr Worcester, England, 1804-1813
Cerne Abbey in Dorset was a Benedictine monastery founded in 987AD, and remained operating until the Dissolution of the Monastaries act under Henry VIII.