Beschreibung:

A fine and Important Meissen part dessert service made for a Franconian Noble family circa 1767-69 each piece painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilding, with a scroll-painting unrfurling from the top and depicting a bird perched on a flowering peony branch, all set against a background of stylized, scrolling leaves in underglaze-blue and gilt flowers picked out in iron-red, the silver-gilt cutlery with matching porcelain handles, comprising; fifty-four dessert plates ( 22cm.), one bowl (23.5cm.), thirty Augsburg silver-gilt mounted knives, thirty Augsburg silver-gilt mounted forks, thirty Augsburg silver-gilt mounted spoons, together with two similarly decorated Chinese Imari dishes ( 27.3 and 35cm.) Quantity: 147 crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, some pieces with a dot in underglaze-blue and blue painters mark 't' for either Johan Gottlieb Thomas or Johann Michael Trauzel, impressed numerals, the cutlery with maker's mark for Abraham Warmberger and date letters 1767-69.