Live Auction 5966Christie's Interiors
Christie’s roundel
Lot 422

A COALPORT PART DESSERT-SERVICE

CIRCA 1910, GREEN PRINTED MARKS TO SOME PIECES

Closed15 September 2009

Price Realised

GBP 1,875

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A COALPORT PART DESSERT-SERVICE
CIRCA 1910, GREEN PRINTED MARKS TO SOME PIECES
Each painted to the centre with a wreath framing a bird and flowers within petal shaped borders painted with bouquets above garlands, reserved on a blue ground decorated gilt with a band of concentric circles, gilt dentil rim
The plates 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diam.

Specialist note

The present lot is of the same design as the part-service used aboard the Royal Yacht Osborne. Osborne was a wooden paddle yacht of 1,856 tons, launched in 1870 exclusively for Edward VII, when Prince of Wales.

See Christie's London 'Works of Art from The Collection of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon', 14 June 2006, lot 769.