Meissen extensive coffee service "Blume 1" for 13 persons, 50 pieces, underglaze blue sword marks after 1934, 1st and 2nd choice, shape "Neuer Schnitt". Choice, embossed and brush numbers, "Neuer Ausschnitt" form, decoration in fine polychrome overglaze painting as well as gold staffage and gold rim, consisting of two coffee pots, a small pot, cream jug, sugar bowl, 13 cups, 14 saucers and plates as well as a fan-shaped bowl, cake plate and confectionery dish, plus a jug lid, the centre jug with an old restoration and a snuff, the rose finials and one saucer chipped, otherwise in good condition for age, h jug 26 cm, 23.5 and 17 cm, h cup complete 7 cm each, d plate 18 cm each, d platter 28 cm.

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