AN ASSEMBLED PARIS PORCELAIN PART DESSERT SERVICE CIRCA 1820-25

each piece finely painted in the center with a colorful sprig of fruit or nuts within a gilt-edged blue-ground and gilt-foliate border on the rim, comprising: 
a fruit cooler, liner and cover,
eight tazze, four deep tazze,
four reticulated tazze,
four circular reticulated fruit baskets,
four three-tiered sweetmeat stands,
two footed circular bowls,
four footed circular dishes,
two sauce tureens and covers and
seventy-nine dessert plates,
printed Ed. HONORÉ A PARIS, DARTE FRERES A PARIS or CH.S PILLIVUYT & Cie. PARIS factory marks, various incised letters. 116 pieces.

Partridge Fine Arts Ltd., London, 1982

Some occasional minor rubbing to gilt edges or rims. Fruit cooler, minor approximately 1-inch patching of rubbing to the gilding of the rim. Deep tazze, one with regilding around the entire upper rim, probably covering areas of wear. Tazze, one with 1/3 of the upper portion oversprayed and regilt on the border, possibly covering a large break or multiple cracks. The extent of the repair is not known due to the concealment by the overall spray. Another with half of the upper part of the stem restored and regilt, damage probably caused by over-tightening. Reticulated tazze, all with some wear to the gilding around the stem, one with an approximately 2-inch and a similar 1-inch areas of restoration and regilding to the pierced rim, another with an approximately 2-inch restored and regilt area to the pierced rim. Circular reticulated fruit baskets, one with an approximately 2 1/2-inch break to the rim of the footed base just beneath where the basket rests, one with a number of fine minor hair cracks running three-quarters of the way around the cavetto area of the basket, probably caused by over tightening. Sweetmeat stands, some minor wear to gilding to the stem. Sauce tureens, one with an approximately 5-inch area of restoration and regilding to the rim and an adjacent related tiny rim chip and short hairline crack; the other with an approximately 6-inch restoration and regilding to the rim. Dessert plates, one with a minor chip on the foot rim, one with an approximately 3-inch restoration and regilding to the rim, three with an approximately 2-inch restoration and regilding to the rim, one with an approximately 2-inch break to the rim that is restored and re-glued.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.