An extremely rare Doccia Dessert Plate, the circular form moulded in crisp low relief with scrolls enclosing six lobed panels three painted in crimson carmine with groups of fruit, on a powder blue ground enriched with gilded details and gold shells. The centre painted with a scene of a Shepherd and a sheep, wearing classical vestments from antiquity, seated in an Arcadian landscape before trees and italianate buildings.

A similar example from the same service bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Lt. Col. K.Dingwall DSO c.102-1926. The scenes on this service appear to be taken from Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide, translated and commented on by Antoine Banier and printed in Paris from 1767-1771. The shape of this plate was first used by Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis around 1760.