THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A CANTON FAMILLE ROSE PART DINNER-SERVICE, each piece enamelled painted at the centre with figures at leisure, dignitaries, scholars, ladies and attendants on terraces, in interiors and in gardens, below an elaborate border of gourd-shaped panels of birds and foliage reserved on a ground enriched with exotic birds and flowering and fruiting foliage, comprising:

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A CANTON FAMILLE ROSE PART DINNER-SERVICE, each piece enamelled painted at the centre with figures at leisure, dignitaries, scholars, ladies and attendants on terraces, in interiors and in gardens, below an elaborate border of gourd-shaped panels of birds and foliage reserved on a ground enriched with exotic birds and flowering and fruiting foliage, comprising:
An oval meat dish with gravy trough, 46.5cm. wide
An oval mazarin dish and pierced mazarin, the dish 44.5cm. wide
Two rectangular vegetable tureens and covers (tureens chipped, one with handle and finial repaired, other with one handle missing), 30cm. wide Two rectangular vegetable tureens and covers (one finial missing), 23cm. wide
Two oval vegetable tureens and covers (one tureen repaired), 27.5cm. and 27cm. wide
An oval sauce tureen, cover and stand (one handle chipped, cover riveted), the stand 20.5cm. wide
An oval butter tub, cover and stand, the stand 16.5cm. wide
A rounded rectangular deep bowl (cracked), 26 x 24cm.
An oval dish, 47.5cm. wide
Two oval dishes, 44cm. wide
An oval dish (damaged), 36.2cm. wide
Two oval dishes, 35.5cm. wide
Four rectangular liner dishes, 26cm. wide
Four square dishes (two chipped, one with associated crack), 22cm. square
Two scallop-shaped dishes with bois simule handles (chipped), 27cm. wide
Eighteen soup plates (mostly chipped, two repaired, three cracked), 25cm. diam.
Twenty-four dinner plates (chipped, fourteen repaired, seven cracked), 25.5cm. diam.
Thirty side plates (chipped, eight repaired, eighteen cracked), 20cm. diam.
Twenty-one dessert plates (eleven cracked, three chipped), 16cm. diam.
A dessert dish (chipped), 18.8cm. diam.
Two shallow dessert bowls, 18cm. diam.
A shallow dessert bowl, 15.5cm. diam.
A coffee pot and cover (spout chipped, neck rim damaged, cover riveted) Seven teacups (four handles repaired, two handles cracked, one chipped) Thirteen coffee cups (four handles repaired, three cracked, one chipped)
Thirty-nine saucers (one repaired, fifteen cracked, two chipped)
early 19th Century (187)

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