A Bernardaud Limoges Vannerie Porcelain Dinner Service

comprising:
15 dinner plates
16 salad plates
21 bread plates (4 in similar Osier pattern)
12 teacups with saucers
12 flat cream soup bowl with saucers
1 creamer
1 sugar
1 small dish (in similar Osier pattern),
together with thirteen Lafarge Limoges butter jars;
116 items total.
Diameter of dinner plate 10 1/2 inches.

Property from the Estate of Bud and Donna O. Wilkinson

Four bread plates and small dish in Osier pattern by Bernadaud, similar in design though slightly thicker to the Vannerie service.

One butter jar with a minute fleabite along the rim and with a short hairline extending therefrom, another with a small chip to the footrim. The covered sugar having two small flakes of loss along the rim and a minute fleabite to the edge of the lid; with some spots of discoloration from surface debris. One bread plate with two small chips to the rim, one with a short hairline extending therefrom. One other bread plate with an approximate 1/4-inch flaking loss to the border along the rim, another bread plate with a small chip to the rim. One saucer with a sticky residue to the center. One dinner plate with an instance of flaking loss along the rim. Another with a crack from the edge to the center, minor loss therealong. Most other articles in very good condition.

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Nick Coombs

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Nick Coombs is a senior specialist in the Furniture & Decorative Arts department and also the Coins, Medals & Banknotes department at Freeman's.
Prior to joining Freeman's in 2014, Mr. Coombs worked for PCGS Currency in Peoria, Illinois, where he was responsible for the grading and authentication of paper money. This enabled him to travel to dozens of coin and currency shows a year and develop a lifelong passion for numismatics. In addition to heading the Coins, Medals & Banknotes department at Freeman's, Mr. Coombs works closely with Furniture & Decorative Arts department and has directed auctions for philatelics, memorabilia, scientific instruments, and fountain pens. He received a BA in art history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a master of letters in art and art world practice from the University of Glasgow.

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A Bernardaud Limoges Vannerie Porcelain Dinner Service

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A Bernardaud Limoges Vannerie Porcelain Dinner Service

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