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A boxed Royal Copenhagen coffee service commemorating the Bicentenary of the United States of America circa 1976
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- all marked with triple wave mark for Royal Copenhagen and green printed factory mark, various painters numbers
- coffee pot: 18cm., 7in.
number 83 of an edition of 300, decorated with silhouette portraits of famous figures from the War of Independence, comprising: a coffee pot and cover with Benjamin Franklin, a tray with Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, a milk jug with John Jay, a sugar bowl and cover with James Madison and three cups and saucers with John Adams, Richard Henry Lee and Alexander Hamilton, against a mottled dark-brown ground with bands of gilt vines, together with the original wooden box and stand and original certificate and documentation