A Royal Worcester Painted and Parcel Gilt Porcelain Tea and Coffee Service

Late 18th Century

blue scale Kakiemon palette, comprising a teapot, covered sugar, creamer, caddy bottle, waste bowl, 5 coffee cups, 8 teacups and 8 saucers; 26 items total.
Height of teapot 6 1/4 inches.

Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of The San Diego Museum of Art

Provenance:

W. H. Plummer & Co., Ltd., New York

In overall decent, stable, attractive condition. Painted museum inventory numbers to undersides of body and lids. coffee cups and tea cups are slightly different sizes amongst like items.
One teacup with a tight firing crack to rim. One coffee cup with a firing crack to body and chip to rim. Two saucers with chips to rim, one larger than the other. Covered sugar with some small flaking to floral finial element. Lid of covered sugar does not sit flush to body. Teapot lid with repaired break to one petal of floral finial. Creamer without lid, likely originally had one, not retained. Additional images available upon request.

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A Royal Worcester Painted and Parcel Gilt Porcelain Tea and Coffee Service

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