An extensive Minton part dinner service mid 19th century

bearing a gilt double D's cypher inside a pink and gilt border, comprising; a soup tureen and a cover, four tureens and three various covers, a sauce tureen cover, three large stands, three small stands, an oval two handled bowl, four 2-division dishes, fifteen serving dishes in sizes, seventy dinner plates, one soup plate, two coffee cups, impressed factory marks, printed retailers marks, extensive wear and damage (109)

Chatsworth Inventory, 1905, p. 84, kept the Wash up Room 'Pink & Gilt Mortlock's China dinner service with monogram

All pieces with extensive wear and damage
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