A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PART TEA AND DESSERT SERVICE AND SIX TEA CUPS AND SAUCERS |

painted with European flowers, the part service with an elaborate moulded border comprising: a teapot, a hot-water jug and cover, a sugar bowl, two milk jugs and covers, another jug, two oval stands and four oval serving dishes, the six tea cups and saucers, with stalk handles, crossed swords marks

teapot: probably from about 1900, cover missing; sugar bowl and cover: generally in good order; hotwater jug: circa 1900, chipping to finial; two covered milk jugs: circa 1930, minor chipping to finials; jug: circa 1900, lacking cover, the two stands: one with rim chip; the oval dishes, circa 1900; the oval dishes: circa 1930, in good order; the six tea cups and saucers: Marcolini period, generally in good order with rubbing to gilt rims, one saucer with small rim chip
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