The present dish is from one of the most elaborately decorated services produced at Worcester. Sumptuously painted with fruit and scattered insects within molded borders enriched in turquoise and gilt, it was designed for King George III's brother, William Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1743-1805). All known pieces are marked with a large gilt crescent, a mark found only on a few richly decorated services produced in the 1770's including examples decorated in the Brocade and Bishop Sumner patterns.

The service passed to the Dukes of Cambridge and, in 1904, Christie's sold over seventy pieces for the family along with a similarly decorated Chelsea service dating to circa 1762. Other examples from the service include a dish in The Bowles Collection now housed in the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Simon Spero, The Bowles Collection of 18th-Century English and French Porcelain, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1995, no. 98). A tureen stand is retained in the Klepser Collection (S. Spero, Worcester Porcelain, The Klepser Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984, no. 64), and a plate is in the Rienzi collection (object no. 81.69) of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.