拍品的状况可能存在极大差异,而由于其性质使然,拍品难以处于完美无瑕的状态。拍品均以拍卖时的状况出售。
The serving pieces in generally good condition; the plates with chips; some general light surface wear, and light wear to the gilding and enamels; some scattered frits and small chips to rims/high points; some small firing flaws in the making; further condition issues and sizes noted below:
Four sauce tureens, covers and stands, 75⁄8 in. long, the stands—Most in good condition; some rubbing to the gilt shields on the stands; some frits at high points; one cover with a small discolored spot; one tureen body with a star crack to the underside and a curved hairline crack to its side.
Four sauce boats, 77⁄8 in. long overall—One handle restored; another with a rim chip near the spout with an associated short hairline; frits; otherwise in good order.
Four lozenge-shaped dishes, 81⁄8 in. long—Good condition; three with wear to the gilding on the shield (one of these with most of the gilding gone).
Eleven octagonal platters in various sizes; wear to the gilt shields; comprising:
1 platter, 173⁄4 in. long—some kiln grit in the making, a tiny chip to underside of rim
2 platters, 16 in. long—Good condition
2 platters, 141⁄2 in. long—Good condition
2 platters, 127⁄8 in. long—Some scattered small rim chips, otherwise in good condition.
2 platters, 111⁄2 in. long—Some glaze lines/crazing, otherwise in good condition
2 small platters, 101⁄4 in. long—Good condition
Three tureen stands, 145⁄8 in. long—One with a small rim chip; one with some frits at the well.
Thirty dinner plates, 85⁄8 in. diameter— Scattered small chips to most, some of these with old touch-ups; wear to the gilt shields; one with an X-shaped hairline crack to the center; approx. five with a glaze line to the center of the underside; one plate with a section of the rim restored; at the time of cataloguing one plate was in half and another with a section out of the rim, these both now reglued by a restorer.
Eight soup plates, 83⁄4 in. diameter—Scattered small chips to most, some with old touch-ups; wear to the gilt shields; two with a hairline crack to the rim, the reverse with staples stabilizing it, one of these two plates also with an old yellowed and flaking rim restoration; one with a restoration to a small section of the footrim.
Six side plates, 6 in. (15.2 cm.) diameter—Scattered small chips to most, a few of these with old touch-ups; wear to the gilt shields.
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