Lot 498
PARIS PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL PART TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
19TH CENTURY
Auction: Five Centuries Day Two | Thurs 12th November | Lots 323 to 579
Description
painted throughout with vignettes depicting landscape and waterside scenes with architectural details and figures in the foreground, enclosed within gilt borders on a blue ground band; comprising eight coffee cans; ten teacups; ten saucers, 14cm diameter; seven smaller saucers, 13cm diameter; nine side plates, 19.7cm diameter; a slop bowl, 17.5cm diameter; a jug, 12.5cm high; a sugar bowl with cover, unmarked (qty)
Dimensions
sugar bowl 14cm high
Footnote
Most of the enamelled vignettes depict European scenes and people. However, several of the vignettes, such as on the jug, one scene on the slop bowl, and one scene on a teacup, depict exotic views and people of colour, possibly Caribbean.