A FAMILLE ROSE PART DINNER SERVICE, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY |

the centre painted with a couple of peacocks in a rocky landscape, the rim decorated with flower sprays comprising of twenty-one dishes, fourteen soup plates, nine desert dishes, nine desert shallow dishes, four sauce-boats with covers and their trays, two barbed rim dishes, two oval tureens and covers, ten graduating oblong serving dishes, two drainers, a square shallow dish, two large octagonal deep dishes, six oblong deep dishes and covers, five large and shallow two-handles serving dishes, two deep round dishes, four oblong serving dishes and eight smaller ; together with two round shallow dishes with covers, China, 19th/20th century 

Collection Yves Saint Laurent – Pierre Bergé, rue de Babylone, Paris (by repute). 

Overall wear to the enamels/gilding, gritting to rims, losses ans tiny restorations.
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