limoges-ceralene-i-vieux-chine-i-partial-dinner-service
Lot 2079
Limoges Ceralene Vieux Chine Partial Dinner Service
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
France, late 20th century, (72) pieces, with orange and blue floral decoration, patterned band on lip edge, gold rim, to include 18 each of dinner plates (10 7/8 in.), salad plates (7 1/2 in.), bread & butter plates (6 1/2 in.), saucers (6 1/8 in.), all marked "LIMOGES / FRANCE," "céralene," "A. Raynaud et CIE / Limoges" to underside, with dinner plates additionally marked "'Vieux Chine' Designed by Compagnie Française des Indes for Marquise de Pompadour 18th Century-Limoges Museum."

Private Collection, Long Island, New York

Light cutlery scratches, occasional wear to gilding and fleabites to rim; (1) dinner plate with loss at rim, (1) dinner plate with small gilt flake, (1) dinner plate with small chips to foot ring; (1) salad plate with two small losses under rim, (1) salad plate with wear to design in well, (1) salad plate with hairline to underside; (1) bread & butter plate with small scratches to lip, (1) bread & butter plate with loss under rim; (2) saucers with faint scratch to design, (1) saucer with small chip to foot ring.