An extensive underglaze brown, turquois, polychrome painted and parcel-gilt Davenport dinner service 19th century

decorated with a central Chinese style flower motif, under scroll and flower painted turquoise and gilt shaped rims; comprising: fourty-eight dinner plates, twenty-five smaller plates, twelve soup plates, two large plates, four small moulded dishes with handles, four small rectangular dishes without handles, four larger rectangular dishes in two sizes, two footed salad bowls, four double-handled vegetable tureens and covers, two small tureens and covers with saucers, one large soup tureen and cover with two ladles and two saucers, two rectangular deep dishes, and three small shell-shaped side dishes

In overall in good condition, some rubbing to the gilt rims, small losses to the polychrome overglaze enamels, some possibly refreshed, some turquoise rims slightly differing in colour, some pieces with few very tiny rim chips, little scratching to the glaze, one soup plate cracked and with craquelé allover the glaze, one ladle broken in two.
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