A COMPOSITE VIENNA AND FÜRSTENBERG PART DINNER AND DESSERT-SERVICE
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION
A COMPOSITE VIENNA AND FÜRSTENBERG PART DINNER AND DESSERT-SERVICE

CIRCA 1790 AND CIRCA 1900, BLUE SHIELD MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN AND IMPRESSED LETTERS, THE FÜRSTENBERG PIECES WITH SCRIPT F AND 2 MARKS, THE LATER PIECES WITH CROSSED MONOGRAM MARK TE OR UNMARKED

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A COMPOSITE VIENNA AND FÜRSTENBERG PART DINNER AND DESSERT-SERVICE
CIRCA 1790 AND CIRCA 1900, BLUE SHIELD MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN AND IMPRESSED LETTERS, THE FÜRSTENBERG PIECES WITH SCRIPT F AND 2 MARKS, THE LATER PIECES WITH CROSSED MONOGRAM MARK TE OR UNMARKED
Primarily Vienna porcelain with period Fürstenberg and modern Continental additions, painted with vingettes of a bird in flight with branches and sprigs in their beaks, among bands of puce husk ornament and entwined meandering blue and puce ribbon and laurel branches, the shaped rims edged in gilt, comprising:
Two ice-pails, covers and liners
Four monteiths
Four half-bottle-coolers
Two reticulated circular baskets
Two shaped oval sauce-tureens and covers on fixed stands
Two shaped oval stands
Four cushion-shaped dishes
Two shaped circular saucer-dishes
Four smaller shaped circular saucer-dishes
Thirty-six dinner-plates
Twelve baluster custard-cups and eleven covers
Two Fürstenberg shaped oval dishes with similar borders
Four Fürstenberg shaped circular dishes in two sizes
Twelve Fürstenberg baluster custard cups and ten covers
Twenty-four modern Continental soup-plates with similar borders and gilt rims
Twenty-two modern Continental dessert plates, painted with birds in flight
Seventeen modern Continental side-plates with plain centers
A Bing & Grondahl oval salt
(183)
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PROVENANCE
The Property of a Lady, Christie's, London, 21 November 2005, lot 291.

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