A Royal Copenhagen Alumnia faience part dinner and breakfast service, circa 1950-70

Model Asserbo, applied with a chamois-coloured glaze, the border with a white basketweave band in slight relief, including: a soup tureen and cover; three low tureens and covers; three extra covers; a pair of deep bowls; four sauceboats; an oval charger, 50.7 cm. wide; five large circular dishes; three oval dishes; an oval side dish; 18 crescent-shaped side dishes; 21 soup plates; 33 dinner plates; 38 dessert plates; a seven-piece 'kabaret' set; a salt and pepper castor and triangular stand; a mustard pot, lacking cover; a bowl; a coffee pot and a cover; a teapot and cover; three pumkin-shaped pots and covers; 14 egg cups; two teacups and six saucers; 29 coffee cups and three saucers; 30 mocca cups; brown factory mark and pattern name, impressed KF. and model numbers, date letters U and X; damages (243)

Paleis Soestdijk

Overall the glaze with craquelé usual for this type of ware. Some items with creamware discolouration to the body and some with glaze scratches from use. The majority of items with chips and (hairline)cracks. One handle of the soup tureen with two broken and restuck fragments. The mustard pot lacking the cover. The coffee pot with matched unfitting cover. One mocca cup with restuck handle.
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The service was used by Koningin Juliana and Prins Bernhard for lunches in their private dining room at Soestdijk until the mid-1980's. Alternative to the formal dinners held in De Witte Eetzaal (The White Dining Hall), the Eetkamer (Dining Room) was used for the private dinners. The furnishings in this room were a gift from the former Netherlands Antilles. Prins Bernhard set stringent dining times: lunch was served at 1 pm and dinner at 7.45 pm. A gong was struck fifteen minutes in advance and anyone arriving too late would miss out on the meal. The lunch was referred to as noenmaal (noon meal) and dinner as avonddis (evening dish).