Details
Most pieces in ‘Market Garden’ or ‘Rothschild Birds’ patterns, comprising:
An oval soup tureen and cover with cut-lemon finial
A large pair of wine coolers
A smaller pair of wine coolers
A square open salad bowl
An oval platter
A lobed two-handled tray
A pair of muffineers and stands
Eleven soup cups and nine stands
Twelve dinner plates
Eleven salad plates
A dessert plate
Three side plates
Three bread and butter plates
Three butter pats
A small dish
Two berry bowls
Two coffee-pots and covers
Three variant sugar-bowls and covers, one on fixed stand
A small cream-jug
Three teacups and saucers
A teabowl
A round box and cover
Two oviform salt and pepper shakers
A spoon
Sixteen large matchbook covers
Two medium matchbook covers
Six small matchbook covers

Together with
A Limoges (Raynaud) coffee-cup in the ‘Rothschild Bird’ pattern
1614 in. (41.2 cm.) long, the platter
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 31 November – 1 December 1956, lot 3 (the twelve dinner plates); lot 49 (the pair of ‘Rothschild Bird’ wine coolers); and 302 (the ‘Market Garden’ wine coolers).
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above.
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