THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A COALPORT IMARI-PATTERN PART DINNER-SERVICE painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red and enriched in gilding with central stylised loose bouquets including peony, the borders with birds perched on flowering branches within shaped cartouches reserved on dark-blue grounds gilt with foliage alternating with panels of flowering foliage, comprising four circular vegetable-dishes and one cover (finial repaired), sixteen oval serving-dishes in sizes (two with chips to footrim, one with star-crack), twenty-four soup-plates (one with rim chip, two with hairline cracks to rims), seventy-nine dinner-plates (seven with hairline cracks, two with chips to footrims, one with chips to footrim, chip to rim and associated crack, two with rim chips and associated cracks, one with rim chip), some pieces with impressed numeral marks, circa 1805
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A COALPORT IMARI-PATTERN PART DINNER-SERVICE painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red and enriched in gilding with central stylised loose bouquets including peony, the borders with birds perched on flowering branches within shaped cartouches reserved on dark-blue grounds gilt with foliage alternating with panels of flowering foliage, comprising four circular vegetable-dishes and one cover (finial repaired), sixteen oval serving-dishes in sizes (two with chips to footrim, one with star-crack), twenty-four soup-plates (one with rim chip, two with hairline cracks to rims), seventy-nine dinner-plates (seven with hairline cracks, two with chips to footrims, one with chips to footrim, chip to rim and associated crack, two with rim chips and associated cracks, one with rim chip), some pieces with impressed numeral marks, circa 1805