Young's Auctions
Lot 777
Early 19th Century porcelain muffin dish with cover, possibly Spode, painted with floral sprays, butterflies, moths, and ladybirds, Dia.22cm overall; French porcelain Chelsea style dessert plate painted with exotic birds and floral sprays within a scalloped rim, gold anchor mark, Dia.21.5cm; Coalport "Rose Pompadour" ground plate with gilt and painted floral decoration, c.1855, blue "CBD" mark, Dia.24.5cm; Ridgway gilt and floral plate, pattern number 2/131; 3 other floral plates, 2 dishes, W.33.5cm the widest, slop bowl, and a Minton sucrier, without cover, H.9.7cm. (11) Slop bowl: surface scratches to exterior, interior decoration and gilding in good order, no chips, cracks or restoration.Peach serving dish: hairline crack running half the circumference (see image).Cobalt plate with flowers and heavily gilded decoration: overall condition good, surface scratches, the gilding slightly rubbed, a couple of 1mm nibbles to the underside rim.Muffin dish and cover: in good order with no chips or restoration. The cover has a shallow split to the rim approx 1cm which would have been created in the making (see image).Hexagonal plate: overall condition good, some rubbing to the gilt on corners.Sucrier: a few firing imperfections as splits at the rim and one thumbnail size internally (see image).Blue serving dish, scalloped birds plate, and all other plates not mentioned above: in good condition with no chips, cracks or restoration, possibly some very light scratches.