A COALPORT DESSERT SERVICE painted in a bright palette with exotic birds standing in shrubby landscape vignettes, the wells with scattered butterflies and insects, the borders with dark-blue panels reserved with gilt butterflies and insects within gilt C-scroll outlines, divided by swags of flowers, within shaped gilt line and feuilles-de-choux cartouches, comprising: an oval dish, a square dish and twelve plates (one cracked, three with a rim chip), various impressed numbers, gilt printed marks, T. Goode & Co. retailer's marks, iron-red pattern number C200, circa 1900

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A COALPORT DESSERT SERVICE painted in a bright palette with exotic birds standing in shrubby landscape vignettes, the wells with scattered butterflies and insects, the borders with dark-blue panels reserved with gilt butterflies and insects within gilt C-scroll outlines, divided by swags of flowers, within shaped gilt line and feuilles-de-choux cartouches, comprising: an oval dish, a square dish and twelve plates (one cracked, three with a rim chip), various impressed numbers, gilt printed marks, T. Goode & Co. retailer's marks, iron-red pattern number C200, circa 1900

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See Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, p. 156, pl. 126 for a Chelsea dish from the Mecklenburg-Strelitz service of which this lot is a copy. The service was ordered by King George III and Queen Charlotte in 1762 as a present for her brother Duke Adolphus Frederick IV of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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