Lot 182
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A WORCESTER COFFEE-CUP with grooved loop handle, painted in an unusual and bright palette with a standing figure of a musician playing the flute, his companion seated with an open book on her lap and with a building on an island in a river landscape vignette, circa 1765

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A WORCESTER COFFEE-CUP with grooved loop handle, painted in an unusual and bright palette with a standing figure of a musician playing the flute, his companion seated with an open book on her lap and with a building on an island in a river landscape vignette, circa 1765

Lot Essay

The subject is perhaps inspired by a detail from the engraving entitled Fortune Teller, see Bernard M. Watney, 'Origins of Designs for English Ceramics of the Eighteenth Century', The Burlington Magazine, December 1972, pp. 818-826, fig. 18

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