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Teawares such as teabowls and coffee cups are exceptionally rare in Limehouse porcelain and very few fragments were found on the factory site. This is curious when these forms were staple products of most porcelain makers. No similar Limehouse can has been published. The moulded handle has probably been adapted from an existing mould for a cream jug for it occurs on a rare enamelled Limehouse jug in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see Limehouse Ware Revealed, p.54, pl.XIII. The decoration on this can is close to that found on Lund's Bristol porcelain and is not particularly characteristic of Limehouse. Fragments of small bowls found on the Limehouse site do provide evidence that this pattern was made there, see Limehouse Ware Revealed, p.59, fig.115.