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A taster of the same shape in the Museum of London, excavated in Newgate is painted inside with a Turk's head, suggesting it was used in a coffee house. See Frank Britton, London Delftware (1986), p.134, fig.94. Another example raised on a spreading foot is also in the Museum of London, see Hazel Forsyth's paper on coffeehouses in 'This Blessed Plot, This Earth' (2011), p.186, fig.4. The pattern on the coffee cup has been linked to delft potteries at Vauxhall or Norfolk House. For a related 'gorge' shaped mug in the Bristol collection with a plain manganese neck see Frank Britton, English Delftware (1982), p.92, fig.6.21.