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Lot 5*

A Derby teacup, coffee cup and saucer by Zachariah Boreman and William Billingsley, circa 1790

29 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£2,500 - £3,000

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A Derby teacup, coffee cup and saucer by Zachariah Boreman and William Billingsley, circa 1790

Of bute shape, finely painted with pattern number 320 of circular landscapes of figures set within extensive rural landscapes by Boreman, framed by swags of colourful flowers and pale blue foliate branches tied with puce ribbons by Billingsley, formal gilded borders around the rims, saucer 14cm diam, crown, crossed batons, D marks and pattern 320 in puce, gilder's number 3 in puce for William Cooper (3)

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Provenance
Bonhams sale, 6 June 2007, lot 387
Twinight Collection

Pattern 320 was the most expensive pattern in the Tea Book. A teapot and cover of the pattern is illustrated by Barrett and Thorpe, Derby Porcelain (1971), pl.155. The painting of the marks corresponds to examples of William Cooper's early crossed batons marks illustrated by Sir Stephen Mitchell, The Marks on Chelsea-Derby and Early Crossed-Batons Useful Wares (2007), pl. 94. Around ten examples of this most desirable of patterns turned up at Derby in November 1877 according to paper labels found on other pieces from the service.

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