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Meissen hard-paste porcelain tea and coffee service with an additional chocolate pot and covered cups. Turquoise and white ground decorated with quatrefoil reserves featuring polychrome paintings of land and sea-scapes. Decorated with simple gilt edges; saucers and bowls with additional elaborate arabesque and trellis gilding. Lids with gilded pinecone finials.
Comprising: coffee pot, chocolate pot, small teapot, large teapot, 2 tea caddys, 12 tea bowls and saucers, 4 additional saucers, 1 slop bowl, 2 covered sugar bowls, 4 covered chocolate cups, pentagonal tray, square tray, jug and cover
Measurements: Comprising 1 coffee pot 21.4 x 14.2 x 1.2, 1 chocolate pot 13.0 x 13.6 x 12.5, 1 small teapot 7.5 x 13.5 x 7.5, 1 large teapot 9.5 x 16.3 x 9.5, 2 tea caddys 12.2 x 8.5 x 5.0, 12 tea bowls and saucers 4.5 x 13.7, 4 additional saucers 13.7, 1 slop bowl 8.2 x 16.0 x 16.0, 2 covered sugar bowls 11.5 x 11.9 x 11.9, 4 covered chocolate cups 10.2 x 10.2, 1 pentagonal tray 2.8 x 15.0 x 14.8, 1 square tray 2.7 x 11.0 x 11.0, 1 jug and cover 15.0 x 13.0 x 9.0Provenance
A similarly decorated part tea and chocolate service first recorded in the Royal Collection in 1872.
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Medium and techniques
Porcelain
Place of Production
Saxony [Germany]