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Lot 165
Five Worcester coffee cups circa 1770
14 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,020 inc. premium
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circa 1770
Of plain U shape with grooved handles, painted in Mandarin style with figures, one with an elaborate design of a traveller greeting an animated couple and their child, the reverse with a figure in a window, another hiding from him around a corner, 6.2cm high, the others with similar figures at various pursuits, 6.2-6.5cm high (one with wear to gilded rim) (5)
Of plain U shape with grooved handles, painted in Mandarin style with figures, one with an elaborate design of a traveller greeting an animated couple and their child, the reverse with a figure in a window, another hiding from him around a corner, 6.2cm high, the others with similar figures at various pursuits, 6.2-6.5cm high (one with wear to gilded rim) (5)
