About this lot

Description

painted with birds, butterflies and insects, within blue and gilt ribbon borders, comprising; twenty-two plates, two two-handled tureens and covers, a tureen and cover, and four graduated shaped oval plates, crossed swords mark in blue (32)



Provenance:
Asprey & Company, Bond Street, London, where acquired in 1971
Property from a Suffolk country house



Condition report:

Plates:
Rubbing to the gilt barbed inner rim
Two have a small surface crack to the footrim
One has a surface chip to the rim
One has glaze cracks
One has surface chip to footrim
One has a small nic out to the rim

Soup bowls:
Glaze crazing and again rubbing to gilding
Chip to rim

Graduated Plates:
Smallest - faint cracks to rm
Second largest - slightly dull glaze and chip to the rim
rubbing to gilding

Tureens
One has been restored to the edge with a subsequent crack
One has two chips to the rim
Rubbing to gilding

All pieces with typical slight rubbing and scratching to the enamel

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