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A rare Limehouse cup, circa 1746-48
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Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), pl 96, p 93, British Porcelain, An Illustrated Guide (1974), pl 319, p 269, An Introduction to English Blue and White Porcelains (1974), pl. 19, fig. 92 and British Porcelain, an Illustrated Guide (1974), pl. 319. Also illustrated by Bernard Watney, English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century (1973), pl 43C, and in Digging for Early Porcelain (1998), fig 17a, p 51. Fragments of these cups were found on the Limehouse factory site. See Limehouse Ware Revealed (1993), figs 137 and 139, p 65 and fig 140 for another Limehouse cup alongside a very similar creamware cup from the Pomona Inn site at Newcastle-under-Lyme. A similar cup with its matching saucer was in the Watney Collection, Pt 2, lot 545
