Lot 398 , A late 19th/early 20th century Royal Crown Derby Imari pattern part dinner service, dinner plates 10in.
A late 19th/early 20th century Royal Crown Derby Imari pattern part dinner service, comprising seventy eight items, including meat plates, side plates, meat dishes and tureens, dinner plates 10in.
Estimate £400-600
Please note the vast majority of the service dates from 1898 to 99 and is a creamy coloured body probably stone china rather than porcelain, there are a set of tea plates of bone china in the same pattern from c.1933, all items have a little wear generally to the gilding but otherwise in reasonable condition, the following items do have damage - one of the sauce tureens and covers, cover has been rivetted and repaired and there is some under rim chip to the sauce tureen, the second matching sauce tureen has two chips to the outer edge, the pair of low oval vegetable dishes only has one cover which has a shallow chip under the rim, the second largest meat dish has an under rim chip and a stained crack going half the width of the body, the oval soup tureen and cover has a shallow chip to the top of the handle, and one of the shallow soup plates has a large stained crack to the rim, otherwise in reasonable condition.
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Sold for £380