Painted with berried laurel garlands entwined with gilt foliate garlands and scattered sprigs of flowers, comprising:
Two two-handled vegetable-tureens and covers,
Three oval pierced baskets,
Two lidded urns and covers with ram's head handles,
Four sauce-tureens, covers and stands in sizes,
Two large shallow circular serving-bowls,
Thirteen smaller circular serving-dishes in sizes,
Three large oval serving-dishes in sizes,
Four smaller oval serving-dishes,
Three salad-bowls,
Four shaped square dishes,
Four smaller shaped square dishes,
Twenty soup-plates,
Sixty-one dinner-plates,
Nine custard-cups and eight covers
The largest oval serving dishes: 19¹⁄₄ in. (49 cm.) wide

The Alberto Bruni Tedeschi Collection, sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 March 2007, lot 155.

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In overall good decorative order. Some minor rubbing and wear to the gilding and enamels throughout, and some surface scratching, as to be expected with use.
Vegetable tureens and covers - one tureen with a Y shaped hairline crack to the base, the other example with a smaller straight hairline crack to the base. Otherwise in good order.
Pierced baskets - two examples with the handles broken and re-stuck with evidence of old glue. The other example lacking the handles and with a 1 cm. firing crack to the footrim.
Lidded urns - The finials to the covers have been re-stuck, and there is evidence of old glue. One with a small section of the cover broken and re-stuck with evidence of old glue. Also with some small chips to the ram head handles. In the catalogue illustration the left urn has a brown mark but this has since been removed.
Sauce-tureens, covers and stands in sizes - One stand with a small hairline crack to the rim. Another stand with a small firing mark to the underside. Otherwise in good order.
Large shallow circular serving bowls - In good order.
Smaller circular serving dishes in sizes - Five with some small rim chips, the others in good order.
Large oval serving dishes in sizes - One example with a rim chip, the others in good order.
Smaller oval serving dishes - Three examples with small rim chips, the other in good order.
Salad-bowls - In good order.
Shaped square dishes - In good order.
Smaller shaped square dishes - One example with a small hairline crack to the central well. the others in good order.
Soup-plates - Three example with some small chips to the footrim, five examples with some small rim chips, the others in good order.
Dinner-plates - One example broken through. Five examples with some small chips to the footrim, twenty examples with small rim chips. The rest in good order.
Cream-pots with eight covers - One example with a matched cover. Another example has been broken and restored. The interior has been sprayed to conceal the damage, but it is visible from the exterior. The rest in goodd order.

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