A stunning 18th century Derby porcelain plate, beautifully decorated by premier artist, William Billingsley, with fruit, swags of summer flowers and blue ribbons.
The plate has elements of early Plate Patterns 7 and 8,  but unusually for a typical Derby study of fruit, also contains the buds and feathery foliage of "Love in the Mist", featured on Plate Pattern 76, allocated to Billingsley.
The decoration is painstakingly carried out, with some of the flower stalks no wider than a single hair of a paintbrush.  Produced on William Duesbury's finest duck egg porcelain.
The plate measures 9.25 inches in diameter and is in excellent condition, save for some loss to the gilding.  Marked with the factory mark in puce and with impressed "V".  No gilder's numbers.