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An early Worcester blue and white coffee cup, circa 1752 image 1
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Lot 97

An early Worcester blue and white coffee cup, circa 1752

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An early Worcester blue and white coffee cup, circa 1752

Gently rounded at the base and slightly flared at the rim, the very unusual handle of D-section, painted in dark underglaze blue with the 'Promontory Pavilion' pattern with a hut on a jetty and stylised bamboo, the reverse with an angler fishing from a sampan, an island and several 'floating rocks', 6.6cm high, marked with a single incised stroke on the footrim

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This class of early Worcester coffee cups is usually found with poorly-controlled blue and white decoration and these probably pre-date the introduction of a 'hardening-on' firing to help to prevent blurring. The decoration of the present lot should be compared with a mug in the Watney Collection, Part 2, lot 571. A related cup with a different treatment of the Promontory Pavilion pattern was shown by Simon Spero in his 2009 exhibition, cat. no.37.

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