Lot 79 , An extensive Minton filigree pattern blue and white dinner service, c.1830,

An extensive Minton filigree pattern blue and white dinner service, c.1830, including a soup tureen, cover and stand, 36cm across, four graduated meat dishes, four vegetable tureens and three covers, and a sauce tureen, cover, stand and label, blue printed marks 'NANKEEN SEMI CHINA'
Estimate £500-800

Comprises:
- a soup tureen, cover and stand, 37cm wide at the handles - the tureen base and stand are both finely crazed with some staining particularly to the interior of the treen but it does still have a slight ring to it
- four vegetable tureens and three covers, 28.5cm across - the first cover has some splinter chips and glaze losses to the handle and the edge of the cover, the second tureen the same but not so noticeable, the third has some fine crazing and staining to the interior and some slight flaking to the glaze on top, the bases are all ok.
- single sauce tureen, cover and stand with ladle - the cover is in good condition, the base of the tureen has been broken and re-glued and is heavily stained and crazed, the stand is in good condition, the ladle has been broken and messily re-glued with some chipping around the area
- single small sauceboat in good condition
- four meat platters ranging from 32cm to 42cm, largest with pierced strainer and with some fine crazing and occasional small areas of staining, otherwise they are in good condition.
- fourteen x 25cm dinner plates, one is badly cracked, four have a large single splinter chip to the edge, one has a small splinter chip / glaze loss to the edge and the remaining eight plates have some occasional crazing and staining
- twelve shallow soup dishes, ten in excellent condition, one is finely crazed and slightly stained, the last example is a slightly different blue to the others, is heavily stained and crazed- a slightly paler blue so maybe a later production.
- single 29.5cm wide footed bread bowl which has a stained crack to one side
- twelve 22.5cm fish or dessert plates, all in good condition
- nine 16.cm side plates, all with some crazing and staining, two with large chips to the edge, one with a section of the rim broken and re-glued and another badly cracked


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Sold for £900