A Coalport gilt and floral cabaret service, circa 1885, comprising coffee pot and cover, cream jug, twin-handled sucrier and cover, four cups, four saucers and an oval tray with twin handles, gilt and white ground with painted oval panels of bunches of flowers, printed factory marks, tray 45.5cm wide (tray badly cracked)

Provenance: Ivor Southorn Collection.

Condition Report

Coffee pot with some staining to the interior base and some stress/heat cracks to the internal piercing on the spout. One cup with a small upper inner rim chip, another with a 0.4mm long hairline descending from the rim. Saucers with some patches of wear to the gilded inner ring. Some pieces crazed.

Tray badly cracked.

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