comprising a tray and two inkwells and covers

Notley Abbey Inventory, April 1948, p. 12, drawing room, ‘A modern Dresden china tray, green scale border and painted flowers in colours with two inkpots and lids to match 9½ wide’, (The Vivien Leigh Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, THM/433/6/1);
Photographed in the drawing room at Durham Cottage, Chelsea before 1954.

In generally good appearance. There is scattered wear and minor surface rubbing, consistent with use. One inkwell cover with a firing glaze flaw to underside. The velvet blotter with wear to surface of material and staining.
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