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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;&#039;Nuff_Said, post: 11331, member: 181&quot;]Thanks, AF!</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Is the crest all you have? It looks like something you&#039;d see on a bookplate&quot;.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>From my research so far, the above is correct. I&#039;ve only found books/bookplates with crest of a <u>collared lion&#039;s head erased</u>, but nothing so far on porcelain in which this crest is decorated on (Chamberlain&#039;s Worcester plate, early-19th C.).</p><p><br /></p><p>The other thing is, I can&#039;t seem to find many examples of this scalloped plate either. There&#039;s one in the BM&#039;s collection with a similar description, circa 1810 - 1845, but the inscribed motto is different. Unfortunately, they don&#039;t show an image, only the description: <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=29563&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=chamberlain+plate&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=29563&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=chamberlain+plate&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=29563&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=chamberlain+plate&amp;page=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The other two I found, circa 1830 are in the V&amp;M&#039;s collection, no crest or motto. 3rd row, far left: <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?listing_type=imagetext&amp;offset=0&amp;limit=45&amp;narrow=1&amp;extrasearch=&amp;q=chamberlain+porcelain+plate&amp;commit=Search&amp;quality=1&amp;objectnamesearch=&amp;placesearch=&amp;after=&amp;after-adbc=AD&amp;before=&amp;before-adbc=AD&amp;namesearch=&amp;materialsearch=&amp;mnsearch=&amp;locationsearch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?listing_type=imagetext&amp;offset=0&amp;limit=45&amp;narrow=1&amp;extrasearch=&amp;q=chamberlain+porcelain+plate&amp;commit=Search&amp;quality=1&amp;objectnamesearch=&amp;placesearch=&amp;after=&amp;after-adbc=AD&amp;before=&amp;before-adbc=AD&amp;namesearch=&amp;materialsearch=&amp;mnsearch=&amp;locationsearch" rel="nofollow">http://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?listing_type=imagetext&amp;offset=0&amp;limit=45&amp;narrow=1&amp;extrasearch=&amp;q=chamberlain+porcelain+plate&amp;commit=Search&amp;quality=1&amp;objectnamesearch=&amp;placesearch=&amp;after=&amp;after-adbc=AD&amp;before=&amp;before-adbc=AD&amp;namesearch=&amp;materialsearch=&amp;mnsearch=&amp;locationsearch</a>=</p><p><br /></p><p>It appears <i>&#039;Tricia Nixon&#039;</i> (President Richard Nixon&#039;s eldest daughter) wanted or got 12 of these Chamberlain&#039;s Worcester plates for a wedding gift back in 1971 according to this 1971 newspaper article&#039;s quote. The quote is the only reference I found so far that describes these plates almost to a tee: <i>&quot;Tricia also suggested (in case nobody gets her the silver, crystal or china) she would like Royal Worcester ovenware with strawberries, <b><span style="color: #ff0000">and a set of 12 antique Royal Worcester service plates valued at $250. The 160-year-old plates are white with gold scalloped edges and, at the top, a blue Medieval crest — Universa Benevolentia (benevolent universe)&quot;.</span></b></i></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000">These are the ones I have...</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[ATTACH=full]2589[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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