TWO OUTSIDE DECORATED DERBY PLAQUES

TWO OUTSIDE DECORATED DERBY PLAQUES, C1880 painted by R Bier, both signed, with flowers, 45 x 37cm, one impressed DerbyLittle is recorded about R Bier, a Crown Derby artist whose flower painting often accompanied G Landgraf's figure painting on important vases or moon flasks. The artist was allocated patterns 767, 875 and 968. See Twitchett (J) and B Bailey, Royal Crown Derby, third edition, Woodbridge 1988, p218.