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Royal Worcester,
Fine Bone China,
~The Dorchester Hotel~
DINNER PLATE
FLUTED. SCALLOPED. RIM PLATE.
These plates are rare: c 1958.
Valuation: $125.00 per plate;
Condition: New.
I am liquidating inventory from my family business.
All pieces were imported by me, directly from Royal Worcester, England.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
From the RW museum:
In the 20 th century traditional skills were maintained and developed at Royal Worcester and bespoke dinner and tea services and ornamental items of the highest quality were made for individual customers including HM Queen Elizabeth II, King Farouk, The King of Siam, Queen Wilhelmina, Ranjitsinji, and The Bayan Palace, Kuwait. Royal Worcester also continued to produce porcelain and bone china for hotels and institutions such as Claridges, The Dorchester, The Savoy, The Ritz, Raffles (Singapore), The Ford Motor Company, The Houses of Parliament, BBC, Aspreys, Garrards and Tiffany’s (New York).
From the Dorchester Collection:
From the moment the famous doors of The Dorchester first opened back in 1931, in London, it has attracted high-profile guests and those with a taste for the finer things in life.
The Worcester Royal Porcelain Co Ltd was formed in 1862. Over the years factory marking of pieces has evolved and although marks vary from impressed and hand written to printed emblems, the majority of bone china produced was marked in the way described below.
The standard printed factory mark, included the number 51 in the centre that refers to the year 1751 when the Worcester Porcelain Company was founded by Dr John Wall. The mark can appear in any colour, and on a variety of materials.
The marks almost always included a code to indicate the year of manufacture.
Please contact seller for more photos if you are interested in particular pattern(s) or piece(s). We have a lot of china - takes time to take pictures of it all!