Lot 273
Grainger Worcester Pink Ground and Gilt Dinner Service, mid-19th century
Lot 273 Details
Grainger Worcester Pink Ground and Gilt Dinner Service, mid-19th century
comprising eighty-two pieces: 27 dinner plates, 10 luncheon plates, 10 side plates, 12 soup plates, 8 large soup plates, 2 covered vegetable tureens, covered soup tureen on stand, 2 covered sauce tureens on stands, and 7 various graduated oval platters
minor restoration
largest platter length 20.5 in — 52 cm
impressed SP / GGW and diamond PODR marks for 1850, painted pattern numbers 381 in gilt
Estimate $400-$600
Provenance:
Estate of Colonel William Eric and Doris Phillips, Toronto
By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario
CONDITION DETAILS
1 sauce tureen with a handle restored and some small rim chips; small chips to the rims of 1 dinner plate and 1 luncheon plate; 3 side plates with rim chips and one with a crack to the centre; 2 soup plates with minor chips under the rims; some wear to gilding, especially around the rims of the vegetable tureens; otherwise substantially in good condition