Royal Crown Derby Blue Mikado Dinner Plate Set of 4 Excellent Condition

Here is a group of 4 Royal Crown Derby Blue Mikado 10 3/16th inch fine English bone china dinner plates. A lovely blue and white chinoiserie design, Blue Mikado is hand decorated and finished with 22kt gold gilt paint around the rim. The Royal Crown Derby Blue Mikado pattern, designed by Thomas Amos Reed in the 1890s, is a blue and white oriental-inspired design based on Japanese ceramics and rice paper drawings. The pattern features intricate scenes like a "wandering sad-eyed lover," "flights of cranes," and pagodas, which were inspired by folk tales and the popular "Mikado" opera, and has been in production with variations from around 1925 to 2019. The blue back stamps and cyphers on this gorgeous set date them to pre-1938. They are in very, very good condition for their age with minimal utensil marks or scratches on the glaze and no noticeable colour loss on the gold painted edges. No chips, cracks, crazing, or signs of repair.