TWO "SAILOR'S FAREWELL" CUPS AND SAUCERS

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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TWO "SAILOR'S FAREWELL" CUPS AND SAUCERS
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
A teabowl and saucer with the parting couple seated on shore and a coffee cup and saucer with a figure allegorical of Hope leaning on an anchor with a pair of tethered lovebirds
5 5/8 inches (14.2 cm) diameter, the saucers (4)

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Lot Essay

Female figures representing "Hope" have long been associated with marine subjects, emblematic as they are of the women left behind in the great age of sea voyaging. "Hope" is also associated with the state of Rhode Island, its arms displaying an anchor and the motto Hope. Hervouët & Bruneau, op cit, p 60, illustrate a saucer from this "Hope" tea service now in a Lisbon private collection.

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