A Ridgway porcelain part dessert service, mid 19th century, comprising one low and two high comports and eight plates, the moulded rims lavishly decorated with cartouches and acanthus scrolls in gilt and peach colours upon an ink blue ground, and centred with fine individually painted arrangements of flowers and fruits, most with retailer's mark of Thomas Pearce & Son, 23 Ludgate hill London, painted fractional pattern numbers 6/2767, 17.5 cm high, largest comport, 23.5 cm diameter plates