Items from a Royal Worcester and Coalport dinner service presented to British statesman and novelist Benjamin Disraeli and Mary Anne Lewis for their marriage will be sold at auction next month.

The dinner service, made by Flight, Barr and Barr, was presented to the couple after their wedding at St. George's Hanover Square, London, on 28 August 1839.

The items, which are a green and gold design featuring floral sprays, will be sold by Bonhams on September 12 in New Bond Street.

They range in estimated prices from £500 to £1,400. These include a Flight, Barr and Barr slop bowl (£500-700), a serving platter dish (£1,000 to £1,400) and a desert plate, a honeypot and a muffin dish.

In 1852, Benjamin became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Derby's minority Conservative government.

When Derby retired in 1868, Benjamin was elected as the new prime minister.

He lived at Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire. Mary Anne, who was believed to be about 12 years older than Benjamin, was the widow of Wyndham Lewis.

Benjamin and Mary Anne had no children so their estate including the porcelain passed to Benjamin's younger brother, Ralph, and then by direct family descent to the present owner.

Ralph's granddaughter, Katherine, lived at Hughenden until her death in 1947. Matching cups from the wedding set made for Benjamin and Mary Anne remain at Hughenden and are displayed in a room off the drawing room.

Mary Anne is buried with Benjamin in a vault in the little church in Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, from which their home, Hughenden Manor, took its name.

That house has been preserved, as it was when they left it, as a museum the public may visit.