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Lot 380

A London-decorated coffee cup and saucer, circa 1820

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A London-decorated coffee cup and saucer, circa 1820

The Nantgarw cup and matching Paris saucer painted in London, probably in the Sims workshop, with scatterred pink roses and cornflower sprigs reserved on a richly gilded lattice ground, the borders with pink roses on a gilded 'dotted' ground, the cup fully decorated both inside and out, saucer 12.8cm diam (2)

Footnotes

The London decorators worked on blank porcelains from a variety of sources, including Welsh, Paris and Coalport. A number of services contain pieces of differing origins, for example the decorators of the Cardiff Castle service used Coalport icepails in combination with Nantgarw, possibly because Nantgarw examples were difficult to obtain. A lack of supply may also have been the reason for the use of a Paris saucer for this lot as Nantgarw are not known to have produced smaller-sized coffee saucers.

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