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A Minton pâte-sur-pâte cream-ground coffee cup and saucer
decorated by Alboin Birks, with a rectangular pale-blue-ground panel depicting two putti at an altar, the reverse with putti at various pursuits, signed, between a gilt zig-zag band and beneath gilt line rim, printed puce marks (restored); and a cup and a saucer, the cup decorated with two busts each within a pale-blue-ground roundel, the saucer with two oval panels depicting a classical maiden, signed, printed and impressed marks (minor rubbing to gilding), late 19th century
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decorated by Alboin Birks, with a rectangular pale-blue-ground panel depicting two putti at an altar, the reverse with putti at various pursuits, signed, between a gilt zig-zag band and beneath gilt line rim, printed puce marks (restored); and a cup and a saucer, the cup decorated with two busts each within a pale-blue-ground roundel, the saucer with two oval panels depicting a classical maiden, signed, printed and impressed marks (minor rubbing to gilding), late 19th century
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