39-PIECE ENGLISH "IMARI"-DECORATED IRONSTONE PARTIAL DINNER SERVICE.mid-19th century. Including 15 dinner plates, 15 soup plates, large well-and-tree platter, two covered sauce tureens - one with undertray, covered soup tureen with undertray, medium sized platter, covered side dish, open side dish - 10 1/4 in. diam., dinner plate. Estimate $400-600
Overall condition is very good - minor scratches to a few pieces, rubbed gilding to surface and rims throughout, crazing to each. One bowl with riveted repair and hairlines; one bowl with extensive glue repair. One plate with chip to rim. Most rims of the plates and bowls have areas of rubbed gilding as well as regilded areas where there are fleabites. One sauce tureen''s undertray has three tiny chips, the interior with brown stains. One sauce tureen with glue repair to lid. Covered side dish has a stained interior. The soup tureen has a repair to the rim, hairlines to interior of the bowl.
