A Derby porcelain Imari-style part tea service, circa 1948

comprising: a pair of two-handled dishes, 25 cm. wide; a sugar bowl and creamer; seven coffee cans and twelve saucers; ten extra larger saucers; eleven small dishes, gilt factory mark and date mark XI; together with a pair of cachepots, 14.3 cm. diam., and a pair of pedestal cups, one restuck foot, circa 1975-80, red marks; discolouration and damages (47)

Paleis Soestdijk

Overall minor usual rubbing to the gilding. One two-handled dish with a hairline crack along the border. The coffee cans with discoloured staining (mainly to the inside); one with a small rim chip and border crack; one a very small chip to the foot rim. One small saucer with a hairline crack to the center. Of the larger saucers one with a chip to the reverse of the rim; one slightly discoloured and with two small border cracks; two with a hairline crack to the center. Of the eleven small dishes one with a small chip to the reverse of the rim. One of the later pedestal cups with restuck foot and some related hairline cracks.
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