A rare Derby yellow faux-marble ground part cabaret service circa 1790

each piece finely painted in the center with an English countryside view, named on the underside, the teapot painted further on the reverse with a 'View of the Coast of Brazil', comprising: a shaped oval tray, a teapot and cover and a sugar bowl and cover, blue painted crowned crossed batons and D mark, inscribed titles, pattern number 425. 5 pieces.

(Tray) Sotheby & Co, London, May 10, 1960, lot 120

There is a very short fine haircrack circling around on end of the handle of the tray. Otherwise all in generally good condition.
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Although it is impossible to make a direct attribution, it is reasonable to propose Zachariah Boreman as the likely painter for the landscape scenes in the present example. A comparison of his landscape paintings illustrated in John Twitchett and Henry Sandon, Landscapes on Derby and Worcester Porcelain, pp. 17 and 19, reveals similarities in paintings of the trees as well as the use of small figures near the water, which has been specified as one of Boreman's signature composition elements, ibid., p. 15.