Four Derby Porcelain Dishes Painted with Crests. Two dinner and two dessert plates, all with gold bands around a deep blue rim, the central quartered crest and shield of elaborate polychrome painted design over banderole.  Cross, crown, crossed batons and dots over D, all in gold or iron red, to reverse.  Derby, England. Circa 1820. {Approximate dimensions: 8 1/4" Diameter and 9 7/8" Diameter, respectively.}. Provenance: The arms are apparently those of Kemeys-Tynte and Swinnerton. Charles John Kemeys-Tynte (1800-1882) of Halswell in Somerset, Cefn Mably in Glamorgan and Burleigh Hall in Leicestershire, was Colonel of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, Member of Parliament for West Somerset 1832-7 and for Bridgwater 1847-65. On July 18, 1820, he married Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Swinnerton of Butterton Hall, Staffordshire. The presumption is that the service this dish came from was made within a year or two of their marriage. Elizabeth died May 10, 1838, and Charles remarried on April 15, 1841. Literature: A pair of plates en suite are illustrated in Twitchett’s book, Derby Porcelain, plate 358, where Twitchett notes that the crest is from a “Welsh family.".

Condition: Three of four plates with hairline crack to rim in towards the wells. All with typical crazing to glaze throughout, typical of factory wares at this date. Wear and losses to gilding.  Minor surface wear and scratches to enamels.