Gilding the Lily - again.

I used this phrase a few times on my blog to describe how the various partnerships of Powell/Bishop/Stonier piled on the trademarks and pattern marks etc on the bottoms of plates etc - perhaps in a state of paranoia of being copied, or perhaps in pride at their creations!? I happened across this image of two tazzas made by one incarnation of the factory ( i don't know who exactly) and was struck by the very literal example of the phrase.