Antique English Edwardian Royal Doulton Porcelain Cabinet Plate ~ "Laelia Gouldiana Orchids" ~ David Dewsberry

A fine and rare Early 20th Century Antique English Edwardian Royal Doulton Porcelain Lobed Cabinet Plate with heavily gilded border and footring, "Laelia Gouldiana", commonly known as "Gould's Laelia" after Jay Gould, the 19th Century New York Financier; painted by David Dewsberry, active at Doultons from 1889 to 1919, having joined the company after training under the Alcocks at the Hill Pottery, Burslem, and having won the first medal ever awarded to a student at the Wedgwood institute. Acknowledged as a master painter of orchids, he studied the plants in the conservatories of the Duke of Sutherland, Joseph Chamberlain and other orchid-growers. A great music lover, he conducted the Burslem Congregational Church choir for 33 years. The church remembered his “unstinted voluntary work which raised the standard of the musical portion of our services to a very high level”. His gravestone at Burslem Cemetery bears the words “gone to join the choir invisible”. This plate, an excellent example of his work in this genre, bears on the obverse the signature of the artist, viz. "D. Dewsberry", the reverse with the Royal Doulton puce printed backstamp as used from 1902 - 1922 following the granting of the Royal Warrant to the company in 1901, the title, "Laelia Gouldiana ", painted in gold alongside the puce painted code RQ2673.B., Ref. Robert Allen Design Studio ~ Pattern Numbers, and pattern number C9975, Ref. Doulton ~ Pattern Numbers, and the painted number 7, all this together with the barely legible impressed Date Code 7 for 1907. Height ~ 24.00 cm. / 9.50 inches ~ Width ~ 24.00 cm. / 9.50 inches ~ Depth ~ 2.50 cm. / 1.00 inch ~ Year ~ Circa 1907.

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