THE 'SHAKESPEARE HEROINES' SERVICE: A COALPORT PORCELAIN SERVICE FROM THE 1871 LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION WITH ITS ORIGINAL OAK CHEST DATED 1871, GILT DATED AMPERSAND AND MONOGRAM MARKS, RECORDED AS DESIGNED BY C.J. ROWE, PAINTED BY PALMERE AND...

THE 'SHAKESPEARE HEROINES' SERVICE: A COALPORT PORCELAIN SERVICE FROM THE 1871 LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION WITH ITS ORIGINAL OAK CHEST
DATED 1871, GILT DATED AMPERSAND AND MONOGRAM MARKS, RECORDED AS DESIGNED BY C.J. ROWE, PAINTED BY PALMERE AND RETAILED BY A.B. DANIELL, LONDON
Each of the pale-blue ground vases, plates and cups finely painted with a beauty or scene from one of William Shakespeare's plays, the underside of the plates and saucers with a quote relating to its respective vignette, its Scene and Act identified, all within floral festoons, comprising:
A pair of vase form coolers on stands
Twenty-four plates
Twelve coffee-cups and saucers
Twelve teacups and saucers
Three shallow saucer-form serving dishes with gilt ribbons

All in an oak chest, the front with a brass plate engraved Albert Brassey Esq. 1871 and a paper label to the upper edge inscribed DANIELL, China & Glass Manufacturer, 129 NEW BOND STRT LONDON
11 3/4 in. (29.8 cm.) high, the coolers on stands

Provenance
Colonel Albert Brassey Esq. of Charlton Park, Gloucestershire, Heythrop Hall, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, and at 29 Berkeley Square, London, 1871.
By descent to his oldest son, Captain Robert Bingham Brassey.