The Flight and Barr Worcester "bute" shape cup and saucer with its perfect proportions of...

The Flight and Barr Worcester "bute" shape cup and saucer with its perfect proportions of the design, ring handle and slight ogee detail at the base of the cup, seems perfectly adapted to dignified Neoclassical patterns. However with this brilliant  enameled dot and gilt chain pattern, the stark restraint of Neoclassicism is abandoned for what can only be described as regal. 

The main decoration in this pattern resembles a richly embroidered ribbon. What first may appear as a honeycomb design, upon examination is revealed as rows of circles each centered by a jewel-like green dot of enamel. Looking still more closely, one finds that each circle consists of meticulously controlled purple enamel dots. Gilt stripes and bands of a curiously shaped gilt chain pattern (or perhaps it is a floral row) finish off each field of dotted circles.

Much later in the century a similar combination of gilding and repeated enamel dots was em...

Much later in the century a similar combination of gilding and repeated enamel dots was employed to create an opulent impression. The Worcester pattern invites us to look ahead to the "jeweled" porcelains of Coalport.