Each piece painted with a stylized blue tree growing among large blooms, the rim with iron-red and gilt scrolling flowers, comprising:
An oval soup tureen, cover and stand
A pair of oval sauce tureens, covers and stands
Two shaped-rectangular vegetable dishes and covers
Two oval platters
Twelve soup plates
Twelve dinner plates
Ten salad/dessert plates
16 in. (40.5 cm.) long, the tureen stand

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Overall good condition; some light surface wear and scratches; some light rubbing to the gilding; a few scattered chips; general crazing and some staining; further details below:

An oval soup tureen, cover and stand, 16 in. long, the stand— The stand with a rim chip and 5 short hairlines at the rim; the tureen with a short horizontal hairline crack between the handle terminals; some staining to the crazing on the cover.

A pair of oval sauce tureens, covers and stands, 8⁷⁄₈ in. long, the stands—One with a short faint hairline emanating from the terminal on the cover’s handle; one tureen and cover likely later in date, the cover possibly Minton; the earlier tureen with a chip to one paw foot.

Two shaped-rectangular vegetable dishes and covers, 10¹⁄₂ in. long—One cover with a crack encircling its handle terminal and with an associated hairline crack emanating from it; some staining, mainly the underside of the stands; one stand with a 2 in. hairline crack visible to the underside

Two oval platters, 14 in. and 13⁵⁄₈ in. long—Both with some minor staining to the crazing; one with a hairline rim crack at 12 o’clock; the other with a tiny footrim chip.

Twelve soup plates, 10 in. diameter—Some scattered chips, mainly the underside of the rims; a few with old restored rim chips, now yellowing, to the underside; one with a star hairline crack to the underside; one with a short rim line; one with a small area of staining to the crazing on the front.

Twelve dinner plates, 10¹⁄₈ in. diameter-- Some scattered chips, mainly the underside of the rims, a few of these with old yellowed touch-ups; some staining to the crazing; one with a Y-shaped hairline crack to the center; two with a short rim line; one with a glaze line to the reverse and the front with a darker patch of staining.

Ten salad/dessert plates, 7⁷⁄₈ in. diameter-- Some scattered chips, mainly the underside of the rims; some staining to the crazing; one with a short rim line.

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