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.
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.