80-PIECE ENGLISH PORCELAIN ARMORIAL-DECORATED DINNER SERVICE,19th century, probably Coalport. Including: 35 dinner plates, 16 luncheon plates, 15soup plates, large soup tureen with undertray, two covered side dishes, open side dish, two sauce tureens with undertrays (one without cover), well-and-tree platter, six platters. Each piece with armorial crest with a whippet and banner reading "Non Nobis Solum Nati Sumus", gilt-decorated cobalt border, scalloped rim - 10 1/4 in. diam., dinner plate. Estimate $2,000-3,000
PROVENANCE: Estate of Mrs. DeLong Bowman, Vantage Point Farm, Middleburg, VA
Motto translates from the Latin as "We are not born for ourselves alone."
Dinner plates : 3 with hairlines.
Soup plates: 1 with a chip to bottom rim and a hairline, one with a hairline, one with a hairline and chips to the rim, two with chips to base of rim.
Luncheon plates : 3 with hairlines, one with a chip on base.
Soup tureen: one hairline.
Butter dish: with hairline on handle.
Sauce tureen: one with massive reapirs and a broken handle not repaired, stand has a hairline.
Open side dish, soup plate and lid to butter dish broken.