Royal Copenhagen Manufactory, Denmark

comprising 7 dinner plates, 6 dessert plates, 12 side plates, 4 oval dishes in 4 sizes, 1 large circular dish, 1 pair of oval stands, 1 circular bowl, two sauceboats and a stand, 9 double-handled broth bowls and 11 stands, together with 1 Herend sauceboat and a pair of plates

Cecily Finn, 'Den Förtrollande Ladyn’ [The Enchanting Lady], Bonniers Månadstidning', 1954, p. 35, fig. 7, part illustrated in the kitchen at Durham Cottage, Chelsea.

In overall good appearance. The service has been used and has associated levels of wear to the painted enamels and gilded rims. the dinner plates, 1 has a flat chip to rim; the additional pair of plates, both without basket moulding to the rim; Broth bowls, 1 with a section of rim broken off lacking a handle, with associated crack to body; Side plates, 1 with chip; Circular bowl, jagged chip to rim; 1 sauceboat, old restoration to handle and body which is failing, glued onto stand which is chipped, this would need to be refreshed. The four oval dishes, the smallest with two sections to rim broken and re-stuck, the next bigger dish with a crack to rim and associated repaired rim chip.
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