For sale is a super tea set made around 1800 . It is hand painted with an orange and silver (really platinum) design of flowers and a ring of red circles and silver squares. Silver trim on top edges as well which amazingly show very little wear. Platinum is rarely used as decoration for porcelain since it is extremely costly but it does add a lot of charm to this very nice old set. It is made up of 21 pieces - 1 teapot (glazed over small chip to foot ring, inside only firing crack and a star crack area to the left front side but it rings well), 1 sugar bowl ( glaze crack to bottom that does not go through), 1 creamer, 1 slop bowl (a hairline crack), 8 saucers (1 with a short hairline and 1 with a short tight firing crack) and 8 cups. There are firing impurities throughout the set but they