CIRCA 1758-62

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A Worcester armorial coffee-cup and two faceted teabowls
Circa 1758-62
The coffee-cup with grooved loop handle, decorated in the Kakiemon palette with a dragon, two crabs, insects and flowers and foliage and painted with a coat-of-arms in black and white (sable a chevron argent between three pierced mullets of the same) within a puce rococo-scroll border, the interior with a border of iron-red and gilt flowers and foliage; and a pair of fluted teabowls painted in the Kakiemon palette with the quail pattern, the interior rims with borders of iron-red and gilt flowers and foliage (3)

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Lot Essay

The arms on the first item in the lot are those of Beauville. Part of the remainder of this service including the teapot, sugar-basin, slop basin, and various coffee-cups, teabowls and saucers were sold by Christie's, sale on the premises, Pitchford Hall, 29th September 1992, lots 898-903. A teabowl and saucer from the service, purchased at that sale, is illustrated by Simon Spero and John Sandon, Worcester Porcelain, The Zorensky Collection (1996), p. 142, fig. 126.

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