An extensive Royal Crown Derby Japan pattern dinner service, circa 1890

each piece decorated with oriental flowers and shrubs within a complex diaper foliate scroll border and gadrooned rim, comprising:
a pair of oval sauce tureens, covers and one stand;
four oval vegetable tureens and covers;
an oval soup tureen and cover;
a rectangular fruit bowl;
twelve graduated oval serving dishes, 18in to 10 ½in across;
twelve soup bowls;
forty-six dinner plates ( some damage to tureens),

Vegetable tureens; handle on one cover lacking. Cracks to one tureen. Handle on other tureen lacking. Soup Tureen; handle of cover glued. One foot has been broken off. One foot has been riveted. Some haircracks to feet. Fruit bowl; good condition with minor wear. 12 Serving dishes; one with large crack. Otherwise in good condition with minor wear. 12 soup plates; good condition with minor wear. 46 Dinner plates; small chip to underside of one rim. Otherwise in very good condition with minor wear. Sauce tureens, covers and one stand; good condition
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