Stunning Ridgway Porcelain Large Moulded Dessert Serving Dish 892 c.1825

A superb opulently decorated large Ridgway dessert dish with shaped rim with pierced handles formed as scrolled branches. Ornate relief moulded decoration to the walls of a criss-crossed diaper pattern background, inset with shaped reserves, and overlaid with flowers and foliage, and spreading leafy branches emanating from the handles and split by a large domed teardrop. The shaped centre is flooded with underglaze mazarine blue with a small oval reserve to the centre. The blue ground is densely covered with a stylised gilt flowering grape vine. The rest of the walls are coloured with a soft salmon enamel ground and smothered with gilt decoration of a flowering vine and the moulded details, handles and rim also gilded. Four small shaped reserves are each painted with a garden flower sprig in bright coloured enamels and further small gilded flowers. Pattern number 892 is painted to the reverse. c.1825.