Royal & Noble
Royal & Noble
Queen Mary's Present: An English porcelain turquoise-ground part dinner service, circa 1885
Lot Closed
January 20, 03:50 PM GMT
Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Queen Mary's Present: An English porcelain turquoise-ground part dinner service
circa 1885
painted with gilt and blue ground borders, comprising:
-a circular tureen,
-a large oval tureen and cover,
-three smaller oval tureens and covers,
-three similar oval tureens and covers,
-a two-handled serving dish,
-two oval serving dishes,
-two smaller oval serving dishes,
-three small two-handled serving dishes,
-eighteen soup plates,
-twenty-five dinner plates,
-twenty-one dessert plates;
restorations
Thence by descent.
Lady Victoria was Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1930 to 1937 and she held the office of Extra Woman of the Bedchamber between 1937 and 1953.
This dinner service, of Victorian manufacture, was a practical house warming gift given in the April of 1936 to Lady Victoria. It comes with a facsimile of the Buckingham Palace gift card which accompanied the porcelain inscribed in Queen Mary's hand; 'For Victoria's new flat, hope you will like the dinner set / Mary R / April 1936'. It demonstrates the keen eye, frugality and practical nature of Queen Mary.