A cased Meissen silver-gilt mounted travelling tea and coffee service, circa 1755

finely painted in purpurmalerei with Watteauesque and commedia dell'arte scenes of figures in landscapes and scattered flower sprigs, comprising; a small egg-shaped tea-urn on three scroll and vine feet, and cover, with silver-gilt mounts at rims, the silver-gilt spout modelled as a dog's head, a small rectangular tea caddy and a silver-gilt mounted cover, a hot milk or water jug and cover with silver-gilt chain, a sugar bowl and cover, four teacups, coffee cups and saucers, and four green-edged leaf-shape and scroll moulded spoons, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, the coffee cups with gilded A. mark, impressed numerals, the contemporary leather case of rectangular form with green-silk lining edged in silvered-thread, with two-gilt metal handles at sides,

From Sizergh Castle, Cumbria.

The overall appearance of the service is very good. There are some minor condition issues as follows, The back leg of the tea-urn has been cleanly re-stuck at the terminal. The tea-caddy with a matched cover painted in polychrome. The sugar bowl cover with two flake chips to rim separate and loose. one teacup with a hairline crack around lower terminal of handle, another with a small rim chip. typical small chips to flower finials. one coffee cup with handle re-stuck at terminals. one saucer with a shallow slither chip to rim. One spoon with two minute chip to moulded edge, another with a single minute chip.
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