Lot Essay
For a similar Jacob Petit teapot see Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Barbara Mundt, Porcelain of the Nineteenth Century, 1983, p.120 pl. 206.
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A JACOB PETIT PART DESSERT SERVICE
CIRCA 1845, BLUE J.P. MARKS
Each piece painted in colours with a loose bouquet flanked by scrolling stylized foliate gilding, the rim moulded with shells and enriched with gilt flowering branches, some slight scratches and wear to gilding, comprising:
A teapot and cover, chip to bird finial, small chip to flange
A sugar-bowl and a cover, cover a replacement, bowl chipped
A cream-jug
twelve cups
twelve saucers, one restored chip
twelve plates (40)
CIRCA 1845, BLUE J.P. MARKS
Each piece painted in colours with a loose bouquet flanked by scrolling stylized foliate gilding, the rim moulded with shells and enriched with gilt flowering branches, some slight scratches and wear to gilding, comprising:
A teapot and cover, chip to bird finial, small chip to flange
A sugar-bowl and a cover, cover a replacement, bowl chipped
A cream-jug
twelve cups
twelve saucers, one restored chip
twelve plates (40)