Details
Four various Worcester chinoiserie coffee cups
one painted with two ladies and child watching butterflies above a dog, the reverse with a boy at table; one with two boys playing in fenced garden by blossoming tree issuing from pierced rockwork; a cup painted with two figures behind a table, a lady holding a tray and a child and a lady holding a fan; and a cup printed and painted with a similar design (4)
one painted with two ladies and child watching butterflies above a dog, the reverse with a boy at table; one with two boys playing in fenced garden by blossoming tree issuing from pierced rockwork; a cup painted with two figures behind a table, a lady holding a tray and a child and a lady holding a fan; and a cup printed and painted with a similar design (4)
Literature
H. Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, (Newport 1954), no. 515 for a teapot with a similar pattern to the first item in the above lot.