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Lot 126

A good Lowestoft miniature coffee cup and saucer
Circa 1764.

8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £780 inc. premium

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A good Lowestoft miniature coffee cup and saucer

Circa 1764.
The cup of U-shape with a loop handle, painted in blue with the 'Island' pattern, the islands with huts and trees, boats nearby, 'berry' borders to the rims, the saucer 7.7cm diam, indistinct painters numeral to the footrim of the cup, possibly an 8 with a dash (2)

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A similar coffee cup with a painters' mark '8' or 'g' inside the footrim is in the Norwich Castle Museum, see Sheenah Smith (1975), pl 10, fig 104

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