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Queen Mary's Dolls' House: A rare Cauldon miniature part breakfast service, circa 1921-23

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,500

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Queen Mary's Dolls' House: A rare Cauldon miniature part breakfast service, circa 1921-23

With gilded borders enamelled in black with a Greek key design, each piece decorated in black with the monogram of King George V, comprising five plates, oval dish, square dish, two sugar bowls, milk jug, a saucer and a coffee pot, and an undecorated and unmarked sugar bowl and cream jug of the same shape, plates 2.1cm diam, printed marks 'ESTD 1774, CAULDON CHINA, ENGLAND' in black (coffee pot lacking cover and end of spout) (14)

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The Cauldon breakfast service is one of a number of miniature services made for Queen Mary's dolls' house by manufacturers including Minton and Royal Doulton. A bowl and cover from the Minton dinner service was sold by Bonhams in Oxford on 19 March 2013, lot 186. A bed tray laid with pieces from the Cauldon service is illustrated by Mary Stewart-Wilson, Queen Mary's Dolls House (1988), p.56 with other pieces on pp.51 and 55

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