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Lot 193

Four Lowestoft coffee cups, circa 1768-1785

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Four Lowestoft coffee cups, circa 1768-1785

All of plain U shape, one with an early scrolled handle with thumbrest, painted with the 'Astley' or 'Harvest Bug' pattern, 5.7cm high, another unusually painted with strawberries, redcurrants and two insects, 6.1cm high (tiny chip to rim), another with a small scrolled handle and a formal spray of flowers, 5.8cm high (rim chips), the last with the 'Blackbird' pattern, 6.3cm high (4)

Footnotes

A coffee can from The Watney Collection of the rare 'Astley' or 'Harvest Bug' pattern is illustrated by John Howell, Some Notes on the Introduction of Polychrome Decoration at Lowestoft, ECC Trans, vol 9, pt 3, pl 159c. The same can was sold by Bonhams, 22 November 1999, lot 220

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