BACKGROUND:
My wife is cleaning out our "overgrown" collection of mainly English chinaware because she has quality chinaware coming out of our ears!
She has collected quite a bit of Royal Doulton over the years although this dinner setting is one of her "everyday" sets which she is now replacing.
Don't worry! My wife always insists that I ensure that each piece of the dinner setting is available separately ... an added bonus is that she also has asked me to make sure that anyone who purchases more than a few pieces gets a discount - so the more pieces of the dinner set that are purchased, the lower the cost of each piece.
This dinner setting is what I would call "understated", for everyday use at the dinner table and not really in the class of the "fancy wares" but it is Royal Doulton afterall, meaning a quality product that has been well designed and manufactured (in England not "offshore")
DLAT Rating: 9.9/10 (Darling, Look At This!)
If you wish to see the other Royal Doulton that is currently on this website, click HERE
ROYAL DOULTON - Dinner Setting Comprising 35 pieces in total
Made in England (not "off-shore" as happened with some companies during this period)
Series: H5026
Pattern: MINUET
Minuét derives from a French word, referring to a slow graceful 17th Century dance - although I have this dinner setting spread out all over the dining room table and they are not dancing (neither a slow waltz or some Zomba!) Yes, I am not being serious - life's too short to be serious all the time ...
Instead of trying to describe the design, here is a closeup photograph
All pieces have Gold gilding to the outer rim only, even the teacups have no Gold gilding on the handles intentionally, very sensible for an "everyday use" teacup! - overall, this dinner setting uses classic decoration that looks great but is not overstated.
The base fine bone china is a pure clean White
BACKSTAMP DETAILS:
Here is a photograph of the backstamp used on these pieces ...
This dinner setting comprises the following pieces ...
As you may be able to imagine, it will take me some time to carefully check all of her pieces, wash them (if needed) and do the photograph thing ... please be patient! Within a couple of days I should have this advertisement completed.
As a guide to the pricing, I see folks online offering these dinner settings for around A$400 - this one will be much less than that and you can pick n choose which pieces you may need if you are looking for replacements.
