A ROYAL WORCESTER 'VITREOUS CHINA' PART DINNER-SERVICE printed in the 'Aesthetic' taste with dense pale-grey flowering foliage, the borders printed in blue with a frieze of chrysanthemum on a band flanked by dots and lines, within blue and gilt line rims, comprising a soup-tureen, cover and stand, a vegetable-tureen and a cover, two sauce-tureens, covers and stands, all modelled with stylised elephant's mask handles, a sauce-boat and stand, four oval dishes in sizes, ten soup-plates, thirty-three dinner-plates, thirty-four dessert-plates, and ten side-plates (one cracked), blue printed marks and purple and iron-red pattern numbers W/2450, date codes for 1889 and 1890