K.100.1083 New Hall bone china dessert dish [pattern # 2679], with number and title inscribed in red on the back, and with hand-painted center design of "Dr. Syntax Making his Will" (copied from the engraved aquatint plate- an impression of which is included with the dish itself- taken from Thomas Rowlandson's "The Third Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of a Wife"). (London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1820-21). Reference: London-World City 1800-40, ed. celina Fox (Yale University Press, 1992) exh. cat., p. 341, No. 194, illustrated (identical dish from the same service now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London). (9.25" H x 7.5" W) England, C.1830.
