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A JOHN RIDGWAY LEAF-MOULDED PART TEA-SERVICE, the apple-green grounds painted in a bright palette with bouquets of summer flowers, the borders and cup exteriors moulded in shallow relief with white acanthus leaves enriched in yellow and gilding, within gilt dentil rims, comprising: two two-handled bread-and-butter plates with two handles, a slop-bowl, twelve teacups, eight coffee-cups and twelve saucers (one cup with small crack to base of handle, minor wear to gilding), pattern numbers 5/2252 in iron-red, circa 1850

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A JOHN RIDGWAY LEAF-MOULDED PART TEA-SERVICE, the apple-green grounds painted in a bright palette with bouquets of summer flowers, the borders and cup exteriors moulded in shallow relief with white acanthus leaves enriched in yellow and gilding, within gilt dentil rims, comprising: two two-handled bread-and-butter plates with two handles, a slop-bowl, twelve teacups, eight coffee-cups and twelve saucers (one cup with small crack to base of handle, minor wear to gilding), pattern numbers 5/2252 in iron-red, circa 1850

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Cf. Geoffrey Godden, Staffordshire Porcelain, p. 192, no. 298, for samples from a similar dessert-service; this model was among a selection of teawares exhibited by John Ridgway at the Crystal Palce Exhibition in 1851 and illustrated in the Art Journal catalogue

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