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"Quaker" Pegg Derby Botanical Plate With "Variegated Iris" Study. c.1813-15.Description. Superbly painted in the inimitable style of William 'Quaker' Pegg, with a magnificent botanical study of a "Variegated Iris". The quality of the painting matches the best work of Pegg, as illustrated, for example, in John Twitchett's "Derby Porcelain 1748 1848" (see colour plate 51 for a similar composition). Pegg was born in 1775, in Staffordshire. He commenced work, in Derby, in 1796. In 1800 he joined the Society of Friends and in 1801

Gilder number 3 in puce to rim

Saucer 14cm in diameter

Flight and Barr mark for Worcester and London House (number 1

The piece has a sprung handle (at the upper terminal)

Painted with polychrome embellishment to the moulded body and modelled with unusual lamprey handles

It was probably not used on its own until 1768 to 70

Plates painted with the identical pattern are shown as 6

Gilder number 8 in puce for William Longdon

On 06-Apr-22 at 16:58:35 BST

with the lamprey handle which was (rather inexplicably) popular on porcelain creamers of the mid/late 18thc (Worcester

The print was published by the famous gallery (still in being) owned by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi

Decorated with a pattern of vine leaves and grape bunches and with the distinctive berry border apparently unique to Lowestoft