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Lot 187

A Lowestoft coffee cup and saucer, circa 1768

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £687.50 inc. premium

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A Lowestoft coffee cup and saucer, circa 1768

The cup of plain U-shape, the scrolled handle with a thumbrest, painted in blue with shaped panels of Chinese landscapes alternating with smaller circular floral panels, reserved on a deep powder blue ground, a circular landscape panel in the centre of the saucer, saucer 11.9cm diam (cup with minute chips and fine crack) (2)

Footnotes

A similar cup and saucer from the Susi and Ian Sutherland Collection was sold by Bonhams, 3 October 2007, Lot 348 and another is illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), pl.94, p. 86 alongside other pieces of this particularly rare pattern.

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