137-PIECE ROYAL COPENHAGEN FAÏENCE DINNER SERVICE,Denmark and Beehive marks. Including: ten dinner plates, ten salad plates, ten cereal bowls, 13 bread plates, 15 coffee cups with twelve saucers, twelve bouillon with 15 saucers, square serving dish, round serving dish, oval side dish, footed dish, circular serving platter, oval serving platter, soup tureen, teapot, two creamers, sugar, sauce boat, sauce tureen, hors d'oeuvre tray, serving platter, potpourri, four candlesticks, trivet, square dish, three egg cups, salt and pepper in holder, six salt and pepper casters, four ashtrays, two cigarette holders, two toothpick holders. Decorated with blue floral sprays, basket weave border - 10 in. diam., dinner plate. Estimate $400-600
PROVENANCE: Estate of Virginia Lynch, McLean, VA
Dinner plates: two with three chips along rim, one with repair (chip re-glued). Salad plates: one with small hairline. Soup bowls: one with chip on the rim. Bread plates: three with a small chip on the rim, some with tea/coffee stains. Bouillon cups: three with a chip along the rim, one with repair to handle (re-glued). All with crazing. Teacups: one with hairline, two with a chip on the rim. All with crazing. Tea saucers: two with a chip on the rim. Most with crazing. Teapot: chips to tip of spout, interior with tea stains and crazing. One salt/pepper caster with chip on the foot. Sugar bowl: lid with re-glued finial and chip along rim.
Several serving pieces with crazing including: shell-form platter, hors d'oeuvre dish, footed dish, covered sauce tureen, large oval platter, serving bowl, bouillon saucers. Most plates with usage marks visible in the light but the painted decoration is not disturbed.
