ONE HUNDRED AND SIX PIECE ‘RENAISSANCE CABARET’ PATTERN CHIN...

Hammer

£800

ONE HUNDRED AND SIX PIECE ‘RENAISSANCE CABARET’ PATTERN CHINA DINNER SERVICE BY FITZ AND FLOYD, comprising:
10 x 12” (30.5cm) DINNER PLATES
20 x 10 ½” (26.7cm) LUNCHEON PLATES
10 x 9 ¼” (23.5cm) SOUP PLATES
10 x 7 ½” (19cm) DESSERT PLATES
9 x 6 ½” (16.5cm) SIDE PLATES
10 x CONSOMMÉ CUPS AND SAUCERS
9 x COFFEE CANS AND 10 SAUCERS
2 x SAUCE BOATS AND STANDS
2 x COFFEE POTS
2 x CREAM JUGS
2 x SUCRIERS AND COVERS
C/R- one coffee can and one saucer with hips to the rim, one sucrier badly broken but cover intact, plates with very, very light scratching and very, very light rubbing to the gilt, most pieces supplied with original clear polythene wrapper
Footnote: supplied with a copy of a printed A4 letter relating to the history of the service, stating that it was purchased by Leonard Downes, the Butler to Sir John Harvey Jones, then Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, for the use at Smith Square, whilst entertaining the ‘President Elect’ of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. The service was purchased by the current vendor in 1985 when Smith Square closed