Assembled Batavian Pearlware Partial Tea Set, England, c. 1800, probably Leeds, painted with vignettes of bird and sprigs, with a loose spray of crocus and a daffodil, within heart-shaped panels reserved upon a brown ground, with borders of diamond cartouches upon crosshatched bands, including cream jug, ht. 5 1/4; covered sugar bowl, dia. 3 3/4; waste bowl, dia. 6; tea canister, rim ht. 3 5/8; and five tea bowls and four saucers.
Provenance: Grigsby Collection.
Condition
Condition: Cream jug: Rim chips to top and bottom edges.
Sugar bowl: Firing line to interior bottom and exterior underside.
Waste bowl: Small footrim chips.
Tea canister: Wood replacement cover, rim chips surrounding top.
Bowls & saucers: Two bowls with rim chips and one with a rim hairline; saucers are in very good condition.
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