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Lot 293

A very rare London-decorated Paris porcelain teacup and saucer
Circa 1800

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

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A very rare London-decorated Paris porcelain teacup and saucer

Circa 1800
Painted in Derby style by Zachariah Boreman at the Sims workshop in London, the cup with a titled oval landscape of a view 'near Nottingham', a mother and her child and a fisherman on the banks of a river, a bridge and a mill in the distance, wide gilded neoclassical borders around the rims and the well of the saucer, 13.2cm diam, title in neat red script (2)

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Sometime after leaving Derby in 1794, Boreman came to London and worked for the Sims workshop. See David Manchip, Encyclopaedia of British Ceramic Painters, Gilders and Modellers, p 64.

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