A Meissen porcelain floral part coffee and tea service, circa 1745

with neu-ozier relief, comprising: a coffee pot and cover, 24 cm. high; a teapot and a cover; a milk jug and cover; a slop bowl; four coffee cups; five teacups; twelve saucers; together with a Meissen Punktzeit tea caddy and cover; a modern leaf-shaped cup; blue crossed swords marks; wear and damages (31)

Paleis Lange Voorhout, Paleis Noordeinde

Overall with usual rubbing to the gilding, mainly to the rims of the cups and saucers. The cover of the coffee pot broken in various fragments and restuck, with a related rim chip (ca. 1.3 cm. wide) and half of the flower finial lacking. The teapot with a crack to the upper point of attachment of the handle to the body, and a tiny chip to the spout (ca. 0.2 cm. wide). The assembled cover not fitting very well, some finial leaves lacking. The milk jug with a shallow chip to the rim of the spout (ca 0.5 cm. wide) and two tiny chips to the spout extremity, a double hairline crack running from upper border to body (near handle), a small shallow chip to the handle, and a chip (ca 0.3 cm. wide) to the foot rim. The cover with usual small chips to the finial leaves. The slop bowl with a rim chip (ca. 0.4 cm. wide) and a shallow rim chip (ca. 0.3 cm. wide). The cups overall with some minor usual small chips to the foot rims. Two coffee cup with small chips to the extremity of the handle, one with a small chip (ca. 0.2 cm. wide) to the upper rim. One tea cup with two small chips to the upper rim, two tea cups with a chip (ca. 0.6 cm. wide) to the upper rim, and one with a small chip to the extremity of the handle. One saucer with a rim chip issuing two border hairline cracks, one saucer with a chip (ca. 0.3 cm. wide) to the outside of the upper rim, and one with a rim chip (ca. 0.4 cm. wide). The cover of the tea caddy broken in fragments repaired with rivets.
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Illustrated on pp. 57 and 215 of the printed catalogue.