A ROYAL CROWN DERBY PORCELAIN MONOGRAMMED PARCEL-GILT PART DESSERT AND COFFEE SERVICE

DATE CYPHERS FOR 1912, PUCE PRINTED CROWNED MONOGRAM MARKS, IMPRESSED DERBY 12-II, PUCE RETAILER'S MARKS FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, THE GILDING BY GEORGE HEMSTOCK AND JOHN DALE

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A ROYAL CROWN DERBY PORCELAIN MONOGRAMMED PARCEL-GILT PART DESSERT AND COFFEE SERVICE
DATE CYPHERS FOR 1912, PUCE PRINTED CROWNED MONOGRAM MARKS, IMPRESSED DERBY 12-II, PUCE RETAILER'S MARKS FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, THE GILDING BY GEORGE HEMSTOCK AND JOHN DALE
Each border richly gilt with shell cartouches alternating with ribbon-tied garlands, one cartouche on each with the initials JD for James Deering, with faux reeded ribbon-tied rim, comprising: twelve dessert plates, ten cups and eleven saucers
9¼ in. (23.4 cm.) diameter, the plates (33)

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Lot Essay

This elaborate service was commissioned by Tiffany & Co. for James Deering and took over a year and half to complete. It was worked on by a team of the best gilders at the factory, including George Hemstock and John Dale. See J. Twitchett and B. Bailey, Royal Crown Derby, New York, 1976, p. 53.

James Deering was a businessman, socialite and the owner of the renowned Vizcaya estate in Coconut Grove, Miami, where he spent his winters from 1916 until his death in 1925. He also owned homes in New York, Paris and Evanston, Illinois. In 1906 he received the Légion d'honneur in France for his promotion of agricultural technology there.

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