LATE 19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED AND BLACK PRINTED IRONSTONE CHINA MARKS

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A MASON'S IRONSTONE PART DINNER SERVICE
LATE 19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED AND BLACK PRINTED IRONSTONE CHINA MARKS
Each piece with a figural chinoiserie vignette within a paper scroll and oyster ground punctuated with floral sprays and cartouches of precious objects, comprising:
A soup tureen, cover, and stand, 14½ in. (36.8 cm.) diameter
Four sauce-tureens, covers and stands, 8 in. (20.3 cm.) diameter
Three square vegetable dishes and covers, 9½ in. (24.2 cm.) wide An open vegetable dish, 9½ in. (23.5 cm.) wide
Two sauceboats, 8 in. (20.3 cm.) wide
Two platters, 9 in. (22.8 cm.) long
Three platters, 10 1/8 in. (25.6 cm.) long
A platter, 12½ in. (30.2 cm.) long
A meat platter, 17 in. (43.2 cm.) long
A mazarine, 12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm.) long
36 dinner plates, 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter
36 soup plates, 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) diameter
26 salad plates, 8 in. (20.3 cm.) diameter (130)

Lot Essay

See Geoffrey A. Godden, Mason's China and Ironstone Wares, The Antique Collector's Club, 1980, p. 133 for a soup plate from a service printed and enriched on an iron-red ground in the same pattern as on the present example.

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