John Ridgeway Blue Ground Dessert Service, c1850, comprising of a large comport, two medium comports, three low comports and a squat comport, all with two handles and twenty-four plates each painted within a central reserve with a notable English landmark or waterway encircled by a gilt border against a royal blue ground banded by a ring of pale yellow and with all over heavily gilded scrollwork and foliage, the handles of fruiting vine design with gilt highlighting against white, the reverse with titles, pattern numbers 6/264. The scenes comprising: Kilchurn Castle, Bolsover Castle, Vorst, Alnwick Castle, Conistone Lake, Nayworth, Warwick Castle, Tamworth, Belvoir Castle, Chatsworth, Applethwaite, Derwent Water, Howick Hasll, Knarnsborough Castle, Eton, Twickenham on Thames. Provenance: J. B. Hawkins Antiques, Moss Vale, Nsw. Private Collection, Nsw