A Worcester armorial coffee cup, teacup and saucer

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A Worcester armorial coffee cup, teacup and saucer
the saucer painted with a coat-of-arms within a purple cartouche issuing scrolling foliage below a crest, the cups painted with crests, among scattered sprigs of flowers below iron-red edged gilt scrolls, the teacup and saucer with blue crossed swords and 9. marks, circa 1765 (light rubbing, the coffee cup with a small crack below the rim)
See colour plate 4 (3)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Beaumont with Ayscough in pretence.

Cf. Gerald Coke, In Search of James Giles (1983), p. 200, pl. b for a plate from the above service; also see Armorial Worcester Porcelain of the First Period (1964), no. 9.

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