Lot 254
Ashworth ‘Indian Tree’ Ironstone Dinner Service, c.1900
CONDITION DETAILS
Comprising 16 dinner plates (1 with crazing, 1 with chip beneath rim, 1 with small rim chip and hairline crack beneath glaze, and three others with hairline cracks beneath glaze); 16 luncheon plates (1 with minor crazing); 10 soup plates (1 with shallow rim chip, 4 with minor to moderate crazing); 4 side plates (3 with shallow rim chips); 3 small covered tureens on stands (handle of 1 lid repaired, 2 tureens with handles substantially repaired- 1 with interior crack and hairline crack beneath glaze on base as well); 2 large covered tureens, one with stand (stand with heavy crazing and shallow chip beneath surface of handle); 3 oval serving trays, small, medium and large ( small with heavy crazing, medium with rim chip, large with some moderate crazing); some fading, scratch marks and losses to paint throughout, indicative of age and normal useage