A comprehensive Meissen dinner service, outside painted by E...

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£1,200 - £1,500

A comprehensive Meissen dinner service, outside painted by Elisabeth Wilke, comprising fifty two dinner plates, 24cm diam, sixteen soup plates, sixteen dessert plates, 21cm diam, sixteen tea plates, 15cm diam, soup tureen, two tureens and covers, two sauce boats, another, four graduated serving plates, three serving dishes, seven various serving plates, two fish plates, jam pot, each painted with summer flowers and insects, scored through Meissen marks, initialled E.W. 1895 (143 pieces) Elizabeth Wilke is the vendor's great-great grandmother, it was painted during 1895-1896 while betrothed to Baron Gustaf Rudolf Harleman, who was the Police Commissioner in Stockholm