An extensive vintage porcelain dinner and tea service manufactured by Royal Ceramics (RC), a brand produced in Japan. The service is decorated in the Benita pattern (No. 751), featuring a white porcelain ground with autumnal maple leaf transfer-printed motifs in shades of rust, brown, and green, finished with fine gilt rims. The collection includes multiple pieces such as dinner plates, salad plates, side plates, soup bowls, scalloped dessert bowls, a tall teapot, a lidded sugar bowl, a cream jug, tea cups with matching saucers, a large oval serving platter, a gravy boat with an integrated underplate, and a lidded vegetable tureen. Also included in the lot is a separate large porcelain lidded tureen of circular form, featuring a different neoclassical pattern of floral swags, an urn motif, and a blue and pink border. The base of the Benita pieces bears a backstamp in gold and green: Royal Ceramics, RC within a laurel wreath, JAPAN, 751, and BENITA within a banner.
Condition report:
The service appears to be in good overall vintage condition with no significant chips, cracks, or visible repairs across the collection. There is minor surface scratching from use and slight rubbing to the gilt rims on some pieces, which is consistent with age. Typical minor manufacturing flecks may be present.
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