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Lot 174

Three Richard Chaffers Liverpool coffee cups, circa 1758-65

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Three Richard Chaffers Liverpool coffee cups, circa 1758-65

Each of plain shape, one painted in colours with three Chinese Figures standing among furniture, 5.8cm high, another copied from a Chinese Export original with famille rose flower petals, 6.3cm (filled rim chips), the third painted in iron-red and gold with a stork among lotus and millet, 6.1cm (3)

Footnotes

An identical cup with a red and gold stork is illustrated by Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain 1756-1804 (2011), p.166, fig.5.51. The famille rose petalled cup has rim chips possibly enamelled-over by an early 'china burner'.

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