A REGENCE SILVER-MOUNTED JAPANESE IMARI PORCELAIN CUP AND COVER, the domed removable lid decorated with stylised flowers on a white ground and surmounted by a domed finial etched with bell-husks, strapwork and foliate sprays, the reverse and lid decorated with a similar floral motif, the tapering body with central rosette to the inside, on channelled spreading socle, the bowl cracked and repaired, the porcelain 17th Century, the silver marked with a cross

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A REGENCE SILVER-MOUNTED JAPANESE IMARI PORCELAIN CUP AND COVER, the domed removable lid decorated with stylised flowers on a white ground and surmounted by a domed finial etched with bell-husks, strapwork and foliate sprays, the reverse and lid decorated with a similar floral motif, the tapering body with central rosette to the inside, on channelled spreading socle, the bowl cracked and repaired, the porcelain 17th Century, the silver marked with a cross
4½in. (11.5cm.) diam.; 4in. (10cm.) high

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