A DERBY PART DESSERT SERVICE, CIRCA 1815-20 painted by Thomas Steel with panels of fruits and flowers arranged on a ledge, with gilt broad line rims and foliate borders, comprising: four dessert plates, a pair of sauce tureens and covers, a two-handled basket on short pedestal foot, a shell shaped dish, a cordate shaped dish and a shaped lozenge dish, red painted crown, crossed batons and D marks basket 30cm wide, cracks and wear (12) Thomas Steel (or Steele, 1772-1850), greatly prized for his still life painting, was trained by John Davenport, moving to Derby in about 1815, then on to Minton in 1832. See John Twitchett, 'Derby Porcelain', London, 1980, p.257, No.353, for a similar dessert-service.