A 'COLLAPSED HUSSAR' COFFEE CUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1790

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A 'COLLAPSED HUSSAR' COFFEE CUP AND SAUCER
Circa 1790
Each piece with a roundel painted in vivid enamel colors with the fatigued officeer seated on his upturned cart, his fur-trimmed red jacket slipping off his shoulders, his horse still tethered to the cart but reclining on the ground, on the rim and on the back of the cup a shield initialled C below lion crest

Lot Essay

Possibly the crest of Cust (see D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 332 for an example in the Victoria & Albert Museum collection). This very unusual decoration, with print or design source undetermined, seems to be known only in tea pieces, and must have been a unique order, perhaps for someone who served against an eastern European cavalry unit

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