A Herend porcelain 'Apponyi Orange' (AOG) pattern dinner and tea service, second half 20th century, blue-printed factory marks, gilt-heightened, comprising: a circular twin-handled tureen and cover, a shaped-rectangular deep dish, an oval platter, an oval dish, a sauce boat and stand, a butter dish and cover, a cache-pot, ten dinner plates, ten soup bowls, ten salad plates, eleven side plates, ten coffee cups with matching saucers, a sugar pot and cover, a sugar bowl, a milk jug, a leaf-shaped pickle dish, and a pair of salt and pepper shakers, together with an additional Herend porcelain 'Queen Victoria Rust' (VBOH) pattern shaped-rectangular deep dish (lot)

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