Meissen porcelain 68-piece composite dinner and dessert service

By Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (German, founded 1710)

£35,000

This elegant Meissen service, comprised of some 68 pieces, is adorned in a beautiful floral style, with each piece painted with sprays of garden flowers.

 

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Description

This superb 78-piece composite service is comprised of part dinner and part dessert services. The service includes: a soup tureen with cover; three smaller tureens with covers; a pair of sauce tureens with covers and stands; a square-profile salad bowl; two circular and three oval serving dishes; a sweetmeat dish; ten soup bowls; sixteen dinner plates, with twelve slightly larger and four slightly smaller; seven luncheon plates; three bread plates; ten side plates; four dessert plates, four coffee cups with saucers; and a salt with a ring handle.

The pieces in the service are delicately painted with polychrome sprays of flowers, while several of the pieces—such as the tureens—feature elaborate finials formed as putti holding fruiting cornucopias. The pieces feature gilt handles and rims throughout.

Each piece is marked to the underside with blue crossed sword marks for Meissen, as well as model marks and incised numerals.

Largest serving dish: Height 6cm, width 52.5cm, depth 37.5cm
Square salad bowl: Height 9.5cm, width 22cm, depth 22cm

Details

Artist / Maker
By Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (German, founded 1710)
Country of Origin
German
Date of Manufacture
c. 1900
Period
Early 20th Century
Style
Floral, Meissen, Rococo
Material
Porcelain
Colour
Gold, Multi-coloured, White

Dimensions

Height
6 cm / 2.4 inches
Width
52.5 cm / 20.5 inches
Depth
37.5 cm / 14.6 inches

Reference:
16803

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