English Porcelain Botanical Gilt White Partial Dessert Service
Circa 1830-50, iron-red pattern no. 69
Each center finely painted with a specimen flower, including convolvulus, tulips, peony, ranunculus and other flowers within gilt scroll and scalloped rims, comprising a footed compote, two shell-shaped dishes, two shaped square dishes, four two-handled oval dishes, fifteen dessert plates.
Diameter 8 3/8 inches.

Provenance: D.M. & P. Manheim (foil labels to some).

For similar specimen services, also identified as pattern no. 691, see North East Auctions, NH, 26 October 2008, lot 981 and Christie's, London, 6 February 1997, lot 162.
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Overall very good condition, light wear to the gilt rims and some minor scratches and stacking wear to the enamels, three with some crazing and staining, one of these with a star-crack mainly visible on the underside, short hairline to one handle on an oval dish and couple of the plates with short firing lines in the making and one border with an abraision.

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