A Chinese export assembled part dinner service circa 1760-70

each piece painted in the center with flowering branches issuing from rockwork, within an iron-and gilt ground band reserved with lotus petals on the cavetto, the rim with scattered flower and fruit sprigs and gilt spearhead border, comprising: two sauce tureens and covers, a sauce boat, twelve circular soup plates, four scalloped soup plates, seven scalloped dinner plates, seventeen octagonal dinner plates, nine platters in various sizes and a circular charger, together with a set of similarly decorated plates with foliate scroll border on the cavetto, comprising: twelve scalloped dinner plates, ten scalloped soup plates, two scalloped saucer dishes, one oval platter and two circular chargers. 82 pieces