An extensive Meissen dinner service late 19th century

decorated with bouquets of Deutsche Blumen beneath a Neubrandenstein gilt edged wavy border; comprising twelve cups and saucers, one tea pot and cover, one coffee pot and cover, one milk jug, one sugar bowl and cover, fifteen miniature dishes (of which one broken), three small fruit plates, two sauce boats, one sauce spoon, twenty five deep plates, fifty six plates, sixty six smaller plates, four large deep dishes, two small deep dishes, one small oval dish, two large oval dishes, two large round dishes, and one large tureen and cover; together with twelve smaller Meissen plates, twelve small bowls and one large round dish with similar pattern, another Meissen round dish and a small Berlin plate with similar pattern

rubbing to the gilt rims especially at deep plates, one deep plate with larger rim chip, one with rim chip and related larger hairline crack, one of the miniature dishes broken with large rim chip, another with smaller chip to rim, larger round Meissen dish with restored and overpainted rim chip, some scratching to the painting, monor glazewear
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