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Lot 332

A good Worcester coffee cup, circa 1754-56

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,500 inc. premium

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A good Worcester coffee cup, circa 1754-56

Of plain U shape with a grooved handle, painted in bright colours with three Chinese figures, one with a walking cane and a parasol, a child struggling with a heavy basket to his left and a lady seated beneath a willow tree to his right, 6.4cm high

Footnotes

A similar cup from the Watney Collection, part I was sold by Bonhams 22 September 1999, lot 149 and again from the Crane Collection, 31 March 2010. For a teapot of the pattern see Samuel Clarke, Worcester Porcelain in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection (1987), pl 9. A jug in in the A J Smith Collection is illustrated by Simon Spero, Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain (2005), fig.106.

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