A SMALL GROUP OF 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL POR...

Hammer

£45

A SMALL GROUP OF 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN, comprising a 19th century twin handled chocolate cup with cover and saucer, hand painted with a band of flowers and corn, gilt rims, cup and saucer marked with an underglaze blue 'A' or 'V', a.f, height 18cm, a pair of Limoges bon bon dishes with scrolled handles, hand painted with swags and garlands, bear retailers mark for Bailey, Banks & Biddle, the 'D & C, France' mark gilded over, one a.f, a cylindrical pedestal hand painted with Deutsche Blumen to the top and one side and a landscape with dead game and a hound to the other, underglaze blue scissor mark with asterisk and 9, restored around the foot, height 13cm x diameter 16cm, a Meissen dish relief decorated with convolvulus picked out in gilt, underglaze crossed swords mark and 14, indistinct incised mark, fitted with wire plate rack, diameter 26cm and two small porcelain plaques of a portrait of a woman, oval length 3.5cm, chipped at the top and a copy after Raphael of Madonna della Sedia, diameter 6.2cm (7) (Condition report: chocolate cup cover has riveted repairs as the lid has been broken in half, also rim chips at either end of the break, saucer has two chips and a stained crack, worn gilding, one bon bon dish has riveted repairs and a rim chip, pedestal has extensive amateur restoration around the base, worn gilding, the Meissen dish has underglaze chips to the underside, the oval plaque is chipped at the top and the circular one is worn where it has been in a mount)