Assembled Imari Palette Royal Crown Derby Dinner and Dessert Service with Additions

late 19th/early 20th century, English, the dinner service in the "Kings" pattern" and including twelve dinner plates, dia. 10-1/4", eleven soup plates, dia. 10-1/4", twelve crescent salad plates, w. 9-3/4", d. 5-3/4", an early 19th-century shell dish, w. 9-1/2", d. 9-3/4", a tea tray, w. 17-1/2", d. 13-3/4", ten tea cups, h. 2-1/2", and eleven saucers, dia. 5-1/4", and the dessert service in the "Traditional Imari" pattern, including an oval teapot, h. 5-3/4", w. 10-1/4", a cream jug, h. 3-1/4", dia. 3-1/4", a sugar bowl, h. 3-1/2", w. 5-1/2", thirteen bread-and-butter plates, dia. 6-1/4", four demitasse cups, h. 2-1/4", with four saucers, dia. 5-1/4", a flat cup and saucer, h. 2-1/2", dia. 5-1/4", five demitasse cups in pattern 5853, h. 2-1/4", with five matching saucers, dia. 4-3/4", a Nippon shell dish, w. 8-3/4", d. 9-1/2", a Royal Crown Derby Victorian sauce tureen on stand, h. 6", w. 8-3/4", and a matching German teapot, h. 5-3/4", w. 8-1/2", a sugar bowl, h. 3-3/4", dia. 4", and a cream jug, h. 3-1/4", w. 5".

In overall good condition. There is a hairline crack to the foot of the gravy boat. Three of the salad plates and one dinner plate have visible crazing and staining to the white porcelain ground. There is a chip to the inside rim of the sugar bowl; one teacup has a chip to its rim and a vertical hairline crack that extends the length of the cup. There is a chip to the rim of one soup bowl, and there are a few scattered chips to the foot rim of one bread-and-butter plate. Some of the service exhibits light wear/rubbing to its gilding - notably the tea cup handles. Many of the plates and cups have surface soiling and accretions, all which could be easily removed with a good cleaning. NOTE: There are FIVE demitasse cups with matching saucers, not six as previously stated.