AN EXTENSIVE DODIE THAYER EARTHENWARE CABBAGE-FORM PART DINNER SERVICE MODERN

comprising a tureen, cover and stand, a large salad bowl, a circular serving dish, a circular platter, four oval platters in three sizes, a trefoil condiment dish, forty-one dinner plates, thirty dessert plates, fourteen side plates, thirteen salad plates, eight shallow circular bowls, eight small bowls, a coffee pot and cover, a milk jug, a cream jug, nineteen coffee cups and saucers, four tall vases, six small bud vases, eight candlesticks, four salts and six small ladles, six pepper shakers and fifteen butter pads, impressed marks. Together with a Continental creamware cabbage-form teapot and cover set with a snake spout and handle, 19th century. 218 pieces.

All in general good condition, except: Tureen, Cover and Stand: Three very small rim chips to one leaf. The stand has 5 scattered, miniscule chips to the rim edges. Circular serving dish: has an approximately 1-inch loss at the rim and a further 8 small rim chips. Oval Platters: 17 ½-inch platters: One with an approximately 2 ½-inch haircrack running down the rim and seven further small rim chips. One with a ½-inch chip to the rim edge. 19-½ inch platter: with approximately seven small rim chips. 22-inch platter: with three very small rim chips. Dinner Plates: Eleven, each with a very small chip to the rim or below the rim. One with a ¼-inch rim chip and a further very small rim chip. Three, each with two very tiny rim chips Dessert plates: Eight, each with one very small rim chip. One with two tiny rim chips Side plates: One with two very small rim chips. One with an approximately 1 by ¼-inch rim chip and two other small chips. One with an approximately ½-inch rim chip. Salad plates: Three, each with a very small rim chip. One with two very small rim chips. Shallow circular bowls: Two, each with one small chip on the underside of the rim Small bowls: One with a small chip to the foot rim. Two, each with two very small rim chips. One with a very small rim chip. One with three scattered, tiny rim chips. Coffee Pot and cover: There is a restored area measuring approximately 1 by ½ inch at the rear edge of the spout. The cover has three small chips to the edge of the leaf-molded knob. Coffee Cups and Saucers: Five cups, each with either one or two very small chips to the exterior or interior of the rim. Eight saucers, each with a very small rim chip. One saucer with an approximate 2-inch area of abrasion along the rim edge divided into three different sections. Tall vases: one with a 2-inch by 1-inch re-glued chip to the tip of one of the leaves. One with a very tiny chip on the upper edge. Small bud vases: All with one or more rim chips measuring 1/8 to 1 inch. Candlesticks: All with occasional, small abrasions or chipping to the rim edges. Salt and ladles: One with a very small chip to the edge of the spoon. Pepper shakers: One with a very small rim chip near the pierced opening Butter Pads: Four, each with one very small chip to the rim. Another four, each with very small abrasions or chips along the edge. Continental creamware cabbage-form teapot: has three leaves broken into multiple pieces and glued back or restored. One leaf near the snake handle has an approximately 2 inch area broken off at its upper tip. There are occasional small chips and abrasions to the edges of the leaves. The cover has two small chips to the edges of the leaf-shaped knob.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.