A COALPORT BLUE AND WHITE FISH DISH AND DRAINER AND MATCHING DESSERT TUREEN AND COVER

A COALPORT BLUE AND WHITE FISH DISH AND DRAINER AND MATCHING DESSERT TUREEN AND COVER, JOHN ROSE & CO, C1800-10 with basket moulding, printed with the Caughley Carnation pattern, dish 47cm wProvenance: (dish) Jean Sewell Antiques, (drainer) Margaret Ironside.Both Caughley and John Rose at Coalport are recorded as making "fish dishes" and "trays/strainers". 1969/81 p153 "an oval Salopian dish and fish tray nearly to correspond in pattern"; 1970/81 p145 "A dinner service of red and green Dragon pattern [included] 1 fish dish and 2 strainers". In 1802 Thomas Brocas, the Shrewsbury retailer of Coalport porcelain, advertised "full table services of White China with basketwork on the edges, blue sprigs and chantillia". (1970/81 pp 11-12). These pieces have basket edges and John Rose's Chantilly Sprigs, also Carnation prints matching 1970/81, plt 84.