AN INITIALLED 'CANTON FAMILLE ROSE' PART DINNER SERVICE

CIRCA 1825

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AN INITIALLED 'CANTON FAMILLE ROSE' PART DINNER SERVICE
Circa 1825
Each piece enamelled in the center with a large landscape scene showing colorful pheasants standing on rocky outcroppings growing with bamboo and blossoms, the rims crowded with symbols, still-lifes and blue fretwork-edged cartouches and each with the script initial M in iron-red, comprising:
A pair of oval vegetable tureens and covers, 10 7/8in. (27.6cm.) wide
A sauce tureen, cover and stand, 8 7/8in. (22.5cm.) wide
A butter tub, cover and stand, 5 1/8 (13cm.) wide
A pair of lozenge-shaped serving dishes, 11in. (28cm.) wide
A two-handled sugar bowl and cover, 5 1/16in. (12.9cm.) high
A milk jug, 5 1/8in. (13cm.) high
12 dinner plates, 9 11/16in. (24.6cm.) diam.
17 dessert plates, 8 7/16in. (21.5cm.) diam.
Nine soup plates, 10 3/16 (25.8cm.) diam.
Ten coffee cups
Nine large saucers
Nine smaller saucers (75)

Lot Essay

Dr. J.Q. Feller in The Canton Famille Rose Porcelains discusses several dinner services in closely related patterns which also have an initial or initials rather arbitrarily added to the exuberant enamel decoration (pp. 6,10,12). A sugar bowl in this group (p. 8) closely follows a New Hall form of 1812-21

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