Part service of Davenport china with an armorial crest of a squirrel above a banner with the motto "Hoc Virtutis Opus" (loosely, "This is the Work of Virtue"), C. 1880. Marked "(Crown)/ Davenport/ Longport/ Staffordshire". The service to include: 22 plates (9.75"), 1 bowl (10"), 2 sauce tureens, (8"), one missing one handle, 1 underplate (8"), 1 serving bowl (12") lacking lid, and 1 covered serving bowl (11.5") with gilt loss. From a Peekskill, NY estate.

Loss to the mottoes on roughly 1/2 of the plates. Gilt loss, scuffs, scratches.