$23,500
Extensive Paris Porcelain Armorial Decorated Dessert Service, France, 19th century, each with gilt trim, burgundy red ground and polychrome decorated cartouches featuring an armorial crest with motto below "Nil Temere, Neque Timore" (nothing rashly, nor with fear), fruits and flowers, including twenty-six floral plates, dia. 9 5/8; twenty-one fruit plates, dia. 9 5/8; four low compotes with fruits, four with flowers; four tall compotes with fruits, three with flowers; two three-tier compotes; four pierced circular fruit bowls, dia. 9 1/2; large pierced oval fruit bowl, lg. 17 in.; two covered sauce boats with attached underdishes; seventeen coffee cups; eighteen saucers; most enamel signed on the reverse "Boyer rue de la paix".
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-04-08
