A Meissen part tea and coffee service, circa 1770, finely painted with figures and buildings in harbour/estuary landscapes below gilt strapwork rims, lightly ogee bodies, comprising a coffee pot and cover, teapot (lacking cover), tea caddy and cover, sugar bowl and cover, hot milk jug and cover, slop bowl, canted square dish, oval dish/spoon tray, eight teacups and saucers, blue crossed swords and dot marks
Chorley's bi-annual auction of Fine European Ceramics
Sold for £4,000
A Meissen part tea and coffee service, circa 1770, finely painted with figures and buildings in harbour/estuary landscapes below gilt strapwork rims, lightly ogee bodies, comprising a coffee pot and cover, teapot (lacking cover), tea caddy and cover, sugar bowl and cover, hot milk jug and cover, slop bowl, canted square dish, oval dish/spoon tray, eight teacups and saucers, blue crossed swords and dot marks
European Ceramics
Chorley's bi-annual auction of Fine European Ceramics
The spoon tray with two small rim chips and some rubbing to enamels in well.
Octagonal dish with a tiny rim chip close to corner at 7o'clock. Rubbing to enamels.
Waste bowl in good condition .
Hot milk jug: two small chips to two petals of finial. Jug with small shallow footrim chip.
Caddy: tiny chip to tip of one petal on cover.
Sugar bowl: some chipping to flower finial. Two tiny footrim chips.
Coffee pot: cover with a small shallow chip to flange
Teapot: lacking cover. Shallow chip to footrim of pot.
Saucers: with some flaking to gilding on rim. A coupls have a tiny chip to footrim,
Cups: in good condition.
Gilt border to saucers, teapot and coffee pot match. Other items with a slightly different gilt border.
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Auction: The March Auctions 2025, 26th Mar, 2025
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