ROSENTHAL, SELB, Coffee service, model Louis XIV, with decoration of a flowered branch motif

porcelain, brown (outline) and color printing, gilding; minor chipping of bottom rim of 4 cups and 2 saucers, two small losses of gully edge of jug lid, slight rubbing of gilding; dimensions: jug h. 20 cm, 22 x 10.5 cm, sugar bowl h. 14 cm, 15.2 x 10.5 cm; creamer h. 10.2 cm, 10.7 x 7 cm; cups h. 5 cm, 9.2 x 7.2 cm; saucers h. 1.7 cm, diameter 12.5 cm; signed (all dishes) in green print: crossed dashes with a 2-part closed crown inscribed at the top, on the sides: - R and C -, below: - / LOUIS XIV. and handwritten in bronze inlaid with 4-digit and 2-digit markings.
Germany, Rosenthal Company, Selb (Bavaria), Geschirrabteilung, ca. 1898 - 1906.
The service consists of a pitcher with lid, a sugar bowl with lid, a creamer and 10 cups with saucers. A total of 23 dishes, with cylindrical bellies and bowls with floral relief, with rocaille segmented ears, handles and upper edges, gilded edges. Dishes decorated on their bellies, lids and collars with projections of small and larger branches with small blue and yellowish flowers and green underpainted leaves. Fine, high quality porcelain and elegant forms of one of the oldest models of the Rosenthal company, produced from about 1896-98 until the late 1920s.