A MINTONS PART DESSERT-SERVICE PAINTED WITH ORCHIDS, the turquoise centres painted with various specimens within gilt wells chased with key-pattern and edged with ruyi lappets, the cream borders gilt with cartouches of diaper-pattern enclosing silvered seeds alternating with flowers in gilt and silvered enamel, within beaded and key-pattern rims, comprising:

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A MINTONS PART DESSERT-SERVICE PAINTED WITH ORCHIDS, the turquoise centres painted with various specimens within gilt wells chased with key-pattern and edged with ruyi lappets, the cream borders gilt with cartouches of diaper-pattern enclosing silvered seeds alternating with flowers in gilt and silvered enamel, within beaded and key-pattern rims, comprising:
Two high comports
Four low comports
Seventeen plates (one with slight wear to gilding)
impressed marks, pattern numbers 53953, date codes for 1881

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