Description:
English Worcester porcelain (bone china), 40-piece teaset decorated with underglaze dark blue bands and gilt thistles on a white ground. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has a similar Worceser saucer identified as from the Flight-Davis period, 1780-1790. In an article in "Antiques and The Arts Weekly" (March 24, 2000), a similar set was described as a "26-piece English Worcester porcelain tea service. Made circa 1790 for the Scottish market during the Barr period..." The set includes: teapot and lid, sugar bowl, creamer, waste bowl, two dishes, 12 coffee cups with handles, 10 teacups without handles, and 11 saucers (spoon plate noted as missing). The pieces of the set have wide spiral fluted sides, a thick blue band flanked by gilt lines and overlaid with a stylized gilt foliate chain, and a gilt thistle decorating the center of the plates and saucers, and the sides of the cups, etc.
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