Object Description
A very good quality late 19th Century Austrian, Vienna style porcelain plate, having classical gilded and burgundy boarders with an inset hand painted portrait of the ” Duchess of Devonshire’. Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, was an English socialite, political organiser, style icon, author, and activist. Of noble birth from the Spencer family, married into the Cavendish family, she was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and the mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire. Born 1757, Althorp – Died: 1806, Devonshire House, London