A STAFFORDSHIRE PART DESSERT-SERVICE, the centres painted in colours with butterflies perched on gilt clusters of bracken and other weeds within pale-blue borders enriched with similar decoration in colours and gilding, and shaped gilt dentil rims, comprising: one high comport, two low comports (one with crazing and staining to glaze) and sixteen plates (one cracked and stained, all with some wear to gilding), some plates impressed VL or B, circa 1860

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A STAFFORDSHIRE PART DESSERT-SERVICE, the centres painted in colours with butterflies perched on gilt clusters of bracken and other weeds within pale-blue borders enriched with similar decoration in colours and gilding, and shaped gilt dentil rims, comprising: one high comport, two low comports (one with crazing and staining to glaze) and sixteen plates (one cracked and stained, all with some wear to gilding), some plates impressed VL or B, circa 1860

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