Lot 409
ROYAL WORCESTER FRUIT PAINTED PART TEA SERVICE
CIRCA 1920-30
Auction: Day Two: 07 September 2023 | From 11:00
Description
comprising six cups, six saucers, six side plates, a sugar bowl and a cream jug; the cups and sugar bowl painted to the interior and gilded to the exterior; painted by various artists including Austin, Powell, Price, Hale, Everett, Baynall and Morely; puce factory marks
Dimensions
side plates 15.4cm diameter, sugar bowl 12.8cm diameter, jug 8.2cm high
Provenance
Provenance: The Ashley Hall Collection: By order of The Trustees of the J. Porter Trust & The Executors of the late Leonard Rawcliffe
Footnote
This service presents well. It does have some signs of wear and use. There are a few small surface scrapes and some small pots of wear or tarnish to the gilding throughout. Side plates: a Baynell plate has crazing to the glaze front and back; a Mosely plate has slightly more surface scrapes than the others and a fine 10cm hairline to the back which may be only glaze deep. Sugar: OK; a few marks and small tarnished spots to the gilding at the reverse of the bowl. Jug: OK; handle slightly tarnnished. Cups: one of the Hale cups has some slightly rough surface inclusions to the interior near the grapes, there is also a slight residue in this cup; one Mosley cup has crazing to the bottom. Saucers: one Baynall saucer has light crazing and a couple of fine hairlines visible to the reverse; one of the Mosley saucers has a couple of fine hairlines visible to the reverse.