A Swansea pearlware part dessert service circa 1800-05

each piece finely painted, by Thomas Pardoe and William Weston Young, with a flower specimen, titled on the reverse, within a brown-edged rim, comprising: two 11-inch oval shaped dishes, two 9 3/4-inch oval shaped dishes, four dessert bowls and four dessert plates, one 12-inch oval dish with impressed SWANSEA, one dessert plate with Weston Young's script and the rest with Pardoe's script title inscriptions in red or brown. 12 pieces.

11 inch dishes - both have flaking to the enamels on the rim. One has a 1 1/4 inch rim hair crack and a minor scratch on the painted flower. The other has minor knife nicks to the enamel of the flower. 9 inch dishes - both have enamel flakes to the rims. One has a minor firing crack across the footrim, just visible on the front. The other dish has a 3 inch haircrack to one end and a 2 inch haircrack to the other end. Dessert bowls - all four have some discoloration to centers and minor enamel flaking to rims. Two have minor faint star cracks to centers. Plates - three have discoloration to centers. All four have minor enamel flaking to the rims. One has a 1 inch rim haircrack. One has two shallow rim chips. One also has a patch of discoloration to the rim. The fourth has a 2 inch discolored haircrack to the rim and some minor wear to the painted flower.
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