A collection of fine porcelain decorative cabinet items featuring various ground colours, including magenta, teal, cobalt blue, and pale pink. The pieces are decorated with transfer-printed classical and courting scenes in the Fragonard style, complemented by extensive gilding and hand-painted highlights.
The assortment includes a miniature tea service on a rectangular tray with a teal ground, featuring a teapot, cream jug, sugar bowl, and two cups and saucers, all with gilded scrollwork and scenic panels. A notable footed cup and two graduated saucers feature a four-panel quadrant design with alternating pink floral sprays and polychrome classical scenes of nymphs and cherubs, further enriched with raised enamel jewelling and heavy scrollwork gilding.
The collection also contains a tall ewer and a twin-handled vase with magenta marble-effect grounds and central oval reserves depicting 18th-century courting couples. A cylindrical jar with a domed lid and gilded finial is decorated with a teal and gold ground and a central band of polychrome flowers. A cobalt blue tapered tankard is embellished with gilded bird and floral motifs. Additional pieces include a pair of pale pink ewers with courting couple scenes, a pedestal chalice with scenic panels, and several smaller miniature jugs and vases. No maker marks or backstamps are visible from the available images.
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