
Fergus Gambon
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Sold for £1,912.50 inc. premium
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Two similar cups and saucers were offered for sale by Charles Woollett and Son of Wigmore Street in the late 1960s with provenance from the Wallace Elliot Collection. These cups were discussed by Bernard Rackham, Mr Wallace Elliot's Collection of English Porcelain, The Connoisseur, September 1927. One of these was subsequently sold by Bonhams, 3 December 2012, lot 187, bearing a Wallace Elliot Collection label and inscribed in his hand to the effect that the lot was included with a Meissen service sold at Christies. See also The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery (1924), pl.20, no.61. Another cup and saucer in the Victoria and Albert Museum (C.76-1932) comprises a Derby cup and a Meissen saucer from the original service. Carefully executed matchings of old family services were clearly a specialism of the Derby factory, both the shape and decoration being carefully copied.