This is a beautiful Antique Royal Crown Derby Rimmed Soup Plate in their antique and very rare 8855 pattern.
This is very rare plate and really hard to find pattern.
The plate is decorated with rich gold gilt decorations at the rim.
The plate is accordingly marked with print and impressed Royal Crown Derby marks. The cipher under the dates them in 1911.
The plate is 9 1/2" in diameter and 1 1/4" deep.
It is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks.
It is possible to have some very minimal crazing if any and some utensils marks, consistent with its age .
It has some wear on the inner gold line. I can see a few very small darkened spots on the gold
Exceptional collector’s piece. Would have a place in any china collection.
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