A Coalport part-service, circa 1810

painted with a cartouche of an urn within a fenced garden framed within bands of a large iron-red peony, iron-red scales, gilded swirls on blue, and floral scrolls on green, highlighted in gilding, comprising; a pair of ice-pails, covers and liners, 31cm., 12 1/4 in. high;
16 plates, 22cm., 8 5/8 in. diam.;
22 soup plates, 21cm., 8 1/4 in. diam.;
four oval dishes, 28.5cm., 11 1/4 in. diam.;
four square-shaped dishes, 20cm., 7 7/8 in. wide;
four shell-shaped dishes, 23.5cm., 9 1/4 in. wide;
and a rectangular four footed bowl, 25.7cm., 10 1/8 in. wide

In overall good appearance. Four of the plates have been recently restored, with some associated refreshing to the gilding. Two plates with hairline cracks. Both ice pails with some light staining, one of which is perhaps cracked but not visible.
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