A Worcester baluster coffee-cup and saucer Circa 1756
With wishbone handle, painted in a pale palette with The Valentine Pattern of two doves perched on a quiver of arrows beside a tree and an altar, the rims with diaper panels and C-scrolls (minute rim chip and firing crack to saucer)
Lot Essay
Cf. Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain, The Klepser Collection (1984), no. 56, for the pattern.