ELEVEN PARIS (CLIGNANCOURT) COFFEE-CANS AND SAUCERS, each painted with trailing cornflowers forming an initial, the whole spelling the name FANNY KINSEY, below a garland of flowers within gilt rope-twist bands, crowned iron-red marks, circa 1800; and a flared cylindrical sugar-bowl and cover en suite with gilt ring handles, painted with an entwined floral and gilt LY monogram (chip and slight repair to rim of cover and finial repaired), iron-red stencilled mark, circa 1790, 11 cm. high (12)

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ELEVEN PARIS (CLIGNANCOURT) COFFEE-CANS AND SAUCERS, each painted with trailing cornflowers forming an initial, the whole spelling the name FANNY KINSEY, below a garland of flowers within gilt rope-twist bands, crowned iron-red marks, circa 1800; and a flared cylindrical sugar-bowl and cover en suite with gilt ring handles, painted with an entwined floral and gilt LY monogram (chip and slight repair to rim of cover and finial repaired), iron-red stencilled mark, circa 1790, 11 cm. high (12)

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Reputedly given by the Prince Regent, afterwards King George IV, to Fanny Kinsey. Fanny Kinsey, wife of Colonel Kinsey, Barrack Master at Windsor Castle, reputedly had an illegitimate son by the Prince Regent, known as John Taylor, married and had two sons and one daughter; the daughter married Francis Bisshop in 1891 and had one daughter, the present owner

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