A Limehouse blue and white cup
of quatrefoil section and flared fluted form, with branch-moulded handle and moulded to the exterior with flowering branches enriched in cobalt, painted to the interior with flowers and foliage, circa 1745-8 (chip to handle, hairline crack, general fritting)
See illustration
Lot Essay
C.f English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century, Dr. Bernard Watney, plate 45C, for a similar example