An English porcelain part dinner and dessert service, circa 1845

each piece painted with flower sprays, the border printed with blue stylized leaf motifs, comprising: a circular footed vegetable dish and cover, a square footed vegetable dish, a sauce tureen and cover, two graduated small oval platters, sixteen dinner plates, six soup plates, twenty-one dessert plates, eleven salad plates, five teacups, six coffee cups and eleven saucers, pattern number 1399. 83 pieces.

The circular footed vegetable dish and cover: The cover has a tiny chip to the rim edge. Otherwise in good condition. The square footed vegetable dish: There is some minor discolored crazing to the interior and a pinhead chip to the underside of one handle, which is hardly visible. The sauce tureen and cover: There is a long haircrack running along 3/4 of the circumference by the rim in the interior. Otherwise in good condition. Two graduated small oval platters: some very minor wear to the gilding in the cavetto area ans some occasional scratches to the enamels consistent with use. Sixteen dinner plates: Some very minor and occasional rubbing to the gilding in the cavetto area. One with a short haircrack running down the rim; one with an approximate 3/4-inch rim chip; seven with one or more very small rim chips that are not disfiguring. One with some minor discolored crazing to the center. Six soup plates: One has a 2-inch firing crack in the cavetto area issuing a short haircrack. Four, each with two pinhead chips to the edge of the dentils and one with three tiny chips to dentils at the rimedge. Twenty-one dessert plates: Some very minor and occasional rubbing to gilding. Two with some minor discolored crazing to the center. Eleven plates have one or more small chips to the dentils at the rimedge, some of which are mostly on the underside of the plate. One plate has an approximate 4-inch haircrack running down the rim. Others in good condition. Eleven salad plates: Some occasional and minor wear to the enamels and gilding in the center consistent with use. One has an approximate 1-inch chip to the footrim. one has some crazing and a small chip to the udnerside of the rim. Six plates have one or more chips to the rim edge. Five teacups: One has an approximate 2-inch haircrack running down the rim. Others in good condition. Six coffee cups and eleven saucers: All in good condition.
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