A Meissen porcelain café-au-lait-ground Kakiemon part tea service, circa 1735-40

of moulded ribbed form, with flower bud-form finials, the teapot with a double-scroll handle, the hot milk jug with a wish-bone handle, painted with flowering chrysanthemums issuing from stylized rockwork and small winged insects, with iron-red diaper and purple half-flowerhead bands at the rims, picked out in gilding, comprising:

a small teapot and cover,

a hot milk jug and cover,

and a sugar bowl and cover,

crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, Dreher’s mark of three dots to inside edge of footrim of milk jug

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Height of hot milk jug 14 cm; 5 ½ in