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Plate, with lobed rim consisting of four large and four small lobes, and coverform moulding. Thick gilt band to rim, and inner gilt border of Vitruvian scrolls. Centre finely painted in polychrome enamels with an arrangement of flowers, including convolvulus, carnations and oriental poppies set against a background of a landscaped garden, with a lake and summer house. From the `Garden Scenery' service.

On this plate, a large group of marigolds, anemones and convolvulus is set against a distant landscape with a lake and an octagonal summer house. Never used on porcelain before, this type of composition was probably inspired by similar depictions of flowers in Robert Thornton’s 'Temple of Flora' of 1799-1807. The plate is from a magnificent dessert service painted by Baxter for the Swansea factory’s proprietor, Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778-1855).