AN EXTENSIVE ASSEMBLED MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE 'BIRD MODEL' PATTERN DINNER SERVICE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

each piece painted in underglaze-blue and heightened in gilding with an exotic bird perched upon peony branches, comprising: an oval soup tureen, cover and two stands, an 18-inch oval platter, six 13-inch oval platters, a 23½-inch fish platter, a 21½-inch fish platter, four vegetable dishes and covers, two double-handled sauce tureens, covers and stands, a similar smaller sauce tureen, cover and stand, two butter dishes and one cover, two cake stands, four leaf-shaped dishes, a pierced berry dish, a rectangular stand, two pairs of figural double salts, a shell-shaped pickle dish, a pair of reticulated sweetmeat stands, three reticulated footed baskets, two smaller reticulated footed baskets, seventy-eight dinner plates, sixteen soup plates, twenty dessert plates, nineteen reticulated dinner plates, twenty reticulated dessert plates and ten reticulated dessert bowls, crossed swords marks in  underglaze-blue. Together with a  set of fifteen Continental porcelain teacups and saucers similarly decorated in blue enamel and gilding, crossed swords marks in blue enamel. Minor damage. 246 pieces.