An Extensive Russian Porcelain Tea Service, Gardner Porcelain Manufactory, Verbilki, 1820s

comprising teapot with lid, covered sugar bowl, cream jug, twelve cups and twelve saucers with finely painted genre scenes, many from Dutch sources, on a cobalt blue ground with fine ciselé gilt ornament, with underglaze, overglaze, and impressed factory marks

very fine gilding and painting, with some rubbing to gilding and glazes consistent with age and use, one saucer broken and repaired, the repair discolored but only visible from underside
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