Details
Four Worcester coffee cups
two boldly painted with a butterfly between a bouquet of flowers and sprigs, the interior rim painted in purple with a band of scrolls and half flowerheads with sunbursts, circa 1758-60 (one with a minor chip to footrim); and two painted with various sprays of prunus and peony, circa 1765
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two boldly painted with a butterfly between a bouquet of flowers and sprigs, the interior rim painted in purple with a band of scrolls and half flowerheads with sunbursts, circa 1758-60 (one with a minor chip to footrim); and two painted with various sprays of prunus and peony, circa 1765
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Literature
Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain, The Klepser Collection, (London 1984), no. 49 for a dish with a similar pattern to the first two cups in the above lot.