A G L Ashworth & Brothers dinner service, c1880, boldly decorated with a wide border pattern of flowers and foliage and gilt on a black ground, the service including soup tureen, cover and stand, sauce tureens, covers and stands, vegetables dishes and covers and graduated dishes, soup tureen and cover 21cm h, impressed Ashworths Real Ironstone China and sepia printed royal arms, painted pattern number 4540 (43)Both tureen shape and pattern were illustrated in the trade catalogue of the London wholesaler Silber & Fleming, c1880. See Godden (G A) - Godden's Guide to Ironstone, Stone and Granite Wares, Woodbridge 1999, p.387 In overall unusually good preservation with the exception of one sauce tureen and cover