14th Nov, 2014 9:00 GMT/BST
Autumn Fine Art Sale
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A Continental Porcelain Tea Service, circa 1800, in Empire style, gilt with stylised classical...
Provenance: billed at a 2006 Heidelberg auction as "a Russian Imperial tea service in use during the Napoleonic Wars, at the time when the Russian Princes, Tsar Nicholas I and Constantine (brothers of Tsar Alexander I) were staying at the Haarlass on the banks of the River Neckar in Heidelberg - in the 'Prinzenzimmer' (Prince's room)"
Sold for £900
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
Some scratching to saucers. Wear to gilding throughout, particularly to extremities and on teapot and pedestal bowl. 061014
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