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Lot 129

A Worcester reeded coffee cup, circa 1752-3

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Worcester reeded coffee cup, circa 1752-3

With very fine almost corrugated moulding stepped inwards at the base, the plain rim gently flared, the loop handle with a pronounced thumbrest, painted in the Kakiemon taste with trailing branches of flowering red and yellow prunus issuing from leaves and roots in green and blue, the border with gilded flowerheads linked by iron-red foliate scrolls, a single floret painted in the bottom of the cup, 6.4cm high (minute hairline from the rim)

Footnotes

While little reeded coffee cups were a speciality of the Worcester factory early in the 1750s, this particular slender form with a relatively plain handle is a particularly rare variation. The pattern is known on a few other early cups, including the example in the Watney Collection, part 2, lot 554.

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