A Doccia porcelain part-tea and coffee service, circa 1760-80

painted in the 'a galli' pattern, with cockerels confronting each other in a farmyard beneath waving willow trees in iron-red highlighted in gilding, comprising a coffee pot and cover, a teapot and cover, a jug, two sugar bowls and covers, a mustard pot and cover, eight teabowls, seven beakers, twelve teacups and thirty-three saucers,

The service is probably assembled. The coffee pot, securing sections of cover lacking and finial re-stuck; The jug, handle re-stuck at terminals; The larger sugarbowl, a chip to leaf on finial, the smaller with chips to flower finial; One beaker cracked; One teacup cracked, one teacup with crack around a handle terminal; One teabowl cracked; Of the thirty-three saucers, generally good condition, one saucer is cracked, two saucers later, otherwise very minor scattered nibble chips to rims; The mustard pot and cover, both pieces repaired.
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