Lot 352
An English porcelain part dinner service painted in the Imari palette †
Fine Antique Sale Featuring Arms and Armour
Auction: 8 December 2001 at 11:00 GMT
Description
comprising twin handled soup tureen,cover and stand,with ornate rose and leaf cast finial painted in gilt and underglaze blue and rust with twin handled vase on stand issuing exuberant crysanthemum and other flowers with stylised flowerhead and leaf scroll border, the tureen with beaded stiff leaf cast frieze, (inner lid with chip ,and two long and two short hairlines, base with three minor chips and a hairline), 32cm, large rounded rectangular ashet (minor repaired rim chip and slight discolouration, 53cm wide ,another smaller, 41.5cm (minor glaze scratches], another smaller 31cm (minor glaze scratches] twenty one meat plates, 24cm (four with minor glaze scratches , six with staining, two with rim chips, one with rim hairline, two with hairlines )twelve soup plates, 25cm (two with rim hairline, three with rubbed gilt border, eight fish plates, 22.5cm (two with rim chips, one with minor glaze scratches, one with repaired crack)