$2,252
Ridgway Asiatic Palaces Blue and White Transfer-decorated Dinner Service, England, c. 1835, the pearlware service comprising twelve dinner plates, twelve soup plates, eleven salad plates, eleven dessert plates, twenty-two butter plates, nine graduating platters, three vegetable dishes, a hexagonal covered dish, two hexagonal covered sauce dishes with ladles and undertrays, a small hexagonal dish, and two sauce boats, with blue underglaze stamp on the back inscribed "Ridgways Asiatic Palaces"; accompanied by a similar pattern chamber pot, and an unrelated flow blue ladle, eighty-eight pieces total, (imperfections), ht. 1 1/8-7 1/2, dia. 5 7/8-17 in. Dinner plates-three have a small rim chip, one with a 1 in. rim line with discoloration; soup plates- two w/small rim chips, one w/ small hairline on well; salad plates- two with discoloration; dessert plates- five with light discoloration, one with rim line; butter plates- seven w/ light discoloraion, three with rim lines; platters-three w/ light discoloration around edges; veg. dishes- one with light discoloration; small hexagonal dish discolored. One sauce tureen ladle has an old staple repair on the handle, covered hexagonal dish cover finial with repair.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-03-06
