Large Antique Formosa Flow Blue and Gilt Tableware Collection

England, circa 1880s, (79) pieces featuring a Chinoiserie pagoda landscape with gilt accents, undersides with shield mark "FORMOSA/B&S" attributed to Frederick Booth, to include: (26) dinner plates (10 1/4 in.); (20) salad/dessert plates (9 in.); (9) rimmed soup bowls (all approximately 10 1/2 in.); (6) bread and butter plates (6 1/2 in.); (2) covered sauce tureens with (2) underplates (tureen 7 in., plate 7 3/4 in.); (4) covered vegetable tureens (11 1/4 in.); a footed bowl (11 1/4 in.); (1) covered soup tureen with (1) underplate (tureen 13 in.; underplate 14 in.); (6) oval serving platters (smallest 10 3/4 in., largest 20 3/4 in.); and a well & tree platter (20 1/2 in.).

From the Collection of the late Dr. Margaret Fitch, Aiken, South Carolina

Consistent glaze crazing with minor gilt rubbing; some areas of age toning; some bread and butter plates with chips to underside; chip and repair to underside of one dinner plate; chip to underside of one rimmed soup bowl; chip to rim of one sauce tureen; large chip to soup tureen lid, break and repair to one handle of tureen; chip to handle of a vegetable tureen, break and repair to one lid.

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