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A very rare Limehouse cup, circa 1746-48
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Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain, pl 95, p 92, pl 77, p 72 and colour plate 10, p 701, British Porcelain, An Illustrated Guide (1974), pl 319, p 269, An Introduction to English Blue and White Porcelains (1974), pl. 19, fig. 97 and British Porcelain, an Illustrated Guide (1974), pl. 319. It is also illustrated in Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain, A Selection from the Godden Reference Collection (1985), pl 38, p 44. No other example of this form of cup appears to have been recorded. The moulded decoration of overlapping leaves is seen on some Limehouse sauceboats and creamboats. See the sauceboat, lot 42 in this sale, illustrated in Limehouse Ware Revealed (1993), pl 65, p 36 and the creamboat illustrated at pls 96 and 97. Overlapping leaves in a slightly different form are also seen on Limehouse scent bottles and vases illustrated at pls 87 and 88, p 42. The distinctive handle is similar to that found on a Limehouse creamboat from the Billie Pain Collection, lot 90 and provides a link to Lund's Bristol, founded by 'one of the principal manufacturers at Limehouse which failed'.
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