FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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AN ASSEMBLED COALPORT PORCELAIN IMARI PART DINNER SERVICE
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Decorated in the 'Japan' style with a fenced garden of weeping willow and peony, the rim with brocade panels, comprising: a soup tureen and cover; two shaped- rectangular sauce tureens, covers and stands; two oval sauce tureens, covers and stands; a vegetable dish and two covers; an entrée dish, cover and liner; six graduated hexagonal platters in three sizes; twelve soup dishes; twenty-eight dinner plates; thirty-four salad or dessert plates; together with eight similar Derby coffee-cups and saucers, iron-red crowned crossed batons and D marks; and two similar English coffee-cups, probably Worcester
17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.) long, the two largest platters

Provenance

William H. Plummer, New York, 1941 (the main complement of the service).
Needham's Antiques, New York, 1948 (twelve dessert plates) and December 1952 (pair of sauce tureens).
S. Wyler Inc., New York, May 1949 (twelve dinner plates).
David Collamore & Co., New York (twelve dinner plates).

Literature

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 190, no. 200

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Lot Essay

The first service Peggy and I ever purchased after we were married was a portion of the dinner service illustrated here. We acquired additional pieces in 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1952. As a result, we were able to put together a rather complete service, which we have enjoyed and used often over the years.
D.R.

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