Quaker Pegg Derby botanical plate with 'Early Flowering Phlox

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Quaker Pegg Derby botanical plate with 'Early Flowering Phlox" study c.1813-15.Description. Superbly painted in the inimitable style of William 'Quaker' Pegg, with a magnificent botanical study of "Early Flowering Blue Phlox". 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

this piece

though the handle bears closer affinity to the example illustrated as plate 6

so this decoration is probably mould applied) with vines and foliage and with a crabstock handle and spout

Named for 'William Reid

Floral sprigs connected by thin "gilded" stems

The border features two separate styles of shaped reserve

outside-painted

but most easily seen by looking at the reverse

orgA QUEEN ANNE OAK CHEST-ON-STAND

The piece is marked with the bindenschild

with a satisfying click

The printed pattern is better executed with the handle facing to the left