SPODE AESOP'S FABLES DINNER SERVICE,
depicting scenes from various fables including The Fox and the Lion, The Lion in Love and The Dog and the Sheep, comprising fruit bowl, comport, soup ladle, large meat serving dish, seven ashets, three lidded sauce tureens (two on stands), twenty circular plates, three smaller circular plates, nine circular bowls, six octagonal plates, four shaped circular bowls, five oval dishes, three further serving dishes and a tureen lid

Condition Report
One small tureen has a chip to the inside of the lid rim.
the circular bowl is chipped and cracked to the rim.
One ashet has a chip to rim.
another small tureen has a crack to rim, and a crack to the underside of the base.
A rectangular dish is staple repaired and chipped, another is cracked at rim.
one ashet is cracked.
One ‘spare’ tureen lid is cracked.
another ashet has a glaze deep chip to underside of rim.
another ashet has a chip to topside of rim.
a rectangular dish is cracked.
12 dinner plates have cracks or chips. 8 appear undamaged.
5 soup plates have cracks or chips. 4 appear undamaged.
8 smaller round dessert plates have chips or cracks. 1 appears undamaged.
one small tureen stand has a hairline crack to rim.
two shaped rectangular dishes are cracked, one of which is chipped.

All other pieces appear to be free of serious chips or cracks, though light stains and crazing appears over the service.