Chorley's
Lot 209
An extensive Spode New Stone dinner service, pattern 3875, decorated in the Imari palette with bowls and vases of flowers, comprising two oval soup tureens, covers and stands, four oval sauce tureens on stands (one lacking cover), four square entrée dishes (one lacking cover), a square bowl, eleven meat dishes, various sizes, two low circular comports, a mazarine, two oblong dishes, forty plates, eleven soup plates and fifteen side plates CONDITION REPORT: Soup tureens - one tureen with a 1.5 in rim chip near handle, one cover with small chip to flange, on stand with a firing crack to rim near handle the other stand hevily crazed and stained (although enamels and gilding perfect). The drainer- scuffing to glaze around the edge, one or two scratches to enamels/glaze but gilding good. Veg Tureen- one handle on cover detached and lacking, one base broken at corner and riveted, another base with hairline crack, another base with chipped footrim, one cover extensively broken and riveted, all with some rubbing to gilding. Sauce Tureen- one base entirely stained, one partially stained and with two hairline cracks. One with a faint star crack in the side. One stand in good condition, three with light crazing/staining, one cover with a small patch of light staining and a flange chip. Another with more staining. One in good condition. The largest pie dish broken in half and glued. The smallest with a rim chip, the fruit bowl extensively stained. Olblong dishes - 2 x 26cm rubbed and chipped, 3 x 32cm one damaged and stained, one heavily stained one with rim chip. 4 x 36cm - two good, one worn, one cracked, 1 x 42cm with hairline crack and lightly rubbed, 1 x 48cm restored rim chip and associated crack. Soup plates - 6 rubbed/stained, 4 good condition. Dessert plates - 3 good condition, 2 rubbed (of which 5 have chips and staining)Dinner plates - 4 in very good condition, 13 in usable condition (not too rubbed and with a tiny chip), 3 rubbed with no damage, 14 damaged or stained. 2 cake plates - one with minor glaze fritting to rim, the other without fault
