Old Paris Porcelain Partial Dinner Service

Description:

Old Paris Porcelain Partial Dinner Service, France, mid-19th century, with gilt and green border, most painted with various fruit, unmarked, fifteen soup bowls, dia. 8 1/8, fourteen plates, dia. 9 1/4, thirteen plates, dia. 6 3/4, thirteen covered cups and three covers, twelve saucers, seven cups, seven eggcups, covered tureen, lg. handle to handle 16 1/2, sauceboat with swan neck handle and undertray, cache pot, dia. 7 1/2 in.
Estimate $800-1,200

All with loss to gilding and enamel.
Soup bowls: One with significant knife marks to fruit. Two with hairline crack.
9 1/4 in. plates: One with matrix of hairline cracks. One with large, crude repair to rim. One with chip to rim. One with hairline crack and associated rim chip. One with foot rim chip.
6 3/4 in. plates: Hairline and associated chip to rim. One with rim chip. One with hairline crack and chip to rim. Two with hairline crack. One with rim and foot rim chips.
Covered cups: One with finial off but present. One cup with chip to foot rim. One with chip to rim.
Saucers: One with chip to rim. One with repaired break and associated chip. Two with short hairline crack. One with matrix of hairlines to base.
Cups: One with matrix of hairline cracks to base. One with hairline crack to side. One with hairline crack through handle. One with two hairline cracks to sides.
Egg cups: One with repair to foot. Four with chips to feet. One with chips to rim and foot.
Sauceboat: chip to foot.
Cache pot: hairline crack through base and one side, reinforced with three metal braces.


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