Interiors: The Phyllis and Fred Pressman Collection

All with some use wear including scattered shallow surface scratches and rubbing to the gilding and enamels and fine crazing (please see condition images); further condition and dimensions below:

Nine dinner plates with straight gilt edge: as above and two examples with extensive cracking (recommend restoration); approx. 10 1/2 in. dia.
Four dinner plates with gadrooned edges: as above and the examples with blue edges with discoloration to the crazing and scattered rim chips; approx. 10 in. dia.
Eleven luncheon plates with gadrooned edges: as above; approx. 9 in. dia.
Fourteen salad plates: as above; approx. 8 1/2 in. dia.
Twelve bread plates: as above; approx. 7 in. dia.
Twenty-two teacups: as above and one example with a hairline to the well approx. 1 1/2 in. long; height 2 1/8 x width over handle 5 in.
Twenty-two saucers: saucers: as above and ; approx. 5 3/4 in. dia.
Twenty demitasse cups: as above and one demitasse cup with a hairline extending from the lip to the footrim, another example with a small hairline approx. 1/2 in. long to the body towards the base; height 2 1/2 x width over handle 3 1/4 in.
Nineteen demitasse saucers: approx. five examples with hairlines; one example with a star crack and one example broken into pieces and restuck; 4 5/8 in. dia.
A covered coffee pot: as above; height 7 1/4 x width over handle/spout 7 1/4 in.
A covered teapot: as above; height 6 x width over handle/spout 10 1/4 in.
A covered sugar: as above; height 4 1/2 x width over handles 6 1/2 in.
A handled creamer: as above; height 4 1/2 x width over handle 5 in.

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